2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

The 2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the eighth season of Japan Automobile Federation GT premiere racing. It was marked as well as the eighteenth season of a JAF-sanctioned sports car racing championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The GT500 class champion of 2000 was the #16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX team driven by Ryo Michigami and the GT300 class champion was the #26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 driven by Hideo Fukuyama.

2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship
Previous:	1999	Next:	2001

This season marked the first of several instances where the series champion had not won a single race throughout the season, with Michigami scoring four second places as the season champion's best finish. This phenomenon would occur again in 2001 (in GT500 only) and 2003 (in both GT500 and GT300), resulting in changes to success ballast rules in 2009 to discourage sandbagging.

Drivers and teams

GT500

Team	Make	Car	No.	Drivers	Tyre	Rounds
Nismo	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	1	Érik Comas	B	All
			1	Masami Kageyama		All
			2	Michael Krumm		All
				Yuji Ide		1
				Ukyo Katayama		2–7, NC
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	3	Masahiro Hasemi	B	All
Hasemi Motorsport	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	3	Tetsuya Tanaka	B	All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Wayne Gardner	B	All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans	Toyota	Toyota Supra	6	Hideki Noda	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Aguri Suzuki	B	All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri	Honda	Honda NSX	8	Keiichi Tsuchiya	B	All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	12	Kazuyoshi Hoshino	B	All
Calsonic Team Impul	Nissan	Nissan Skyline GT-R	12	Satoshi Motoyama	B	All
Team Sri Lanka	Mirage	Mirage GT1	15	Dilantha Malagamuwa	Y	4, 6
			15	Hideyuki Tamamoto		4, 6
			69	Dilantha Malagamuwa		2–3
				Steve Young		2
				Hideyuki Tamamoto		3
Mugen x Dome Project	Honda	Honda NSX	16	Ryo Michigami	B	All
				Osamu Nakako		1–4, NC
				Hidetoshi Mitsusada		5–7
			18	Katsutomo Kaneishi		All
			18	Juichi Wakisaka		All
Hitotsuyama Racing	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	21	Akihiko Nakaya	D	1–7
				Mikio Hitotsuyama		1–3, 5–7
				Yasushi Hitotsuyama		4
Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita	Y	All
Tsuchiya Engineering	Toyota	Toyota Supra	25	Manabu Orido	Y	All
Team Take One	McLaren	McLaren F1 GTR	30	Hideki Okada	B	1–7
				Yoji Yamada		1–4
				Tsugio Matsuda		5–7
Toyota Team Cerumo	Toyota	Toyota Supra	32	Masahiko Kondo	B	All
				Takayuki Kinoshita		1–7
				Yuji Tachikawa		NC
			38	Yuji Tachikawa		1–7
			38	Hironori Takeuchi		1–7
Toyota Team TOM'S	Toyota	Toyota Supra	35	Shinichi Yamaji	M	1–7
			35	Pierre-Henri Raphanel		1–7
			36	Masanori Sekiya		All
			36	Takeshi Tsuchiya		All
			37	Seiji Ara		All
				Toshio Suzuki		1–7
				Shinichi Yamaji		NC
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Ralph Firman	Y	All
Denso Toyota Team SARD	Toyota	Toyota Supra	39	Masahiko Kageyama	Y	All
Team Taisan Advan	Dodge	Dodge Viper GTS-R	55	Hiroaki Suga	Y	1–2
				Shinsuke Shibahara		1–2
				Eiji Yamada		4–5, NC
				Takahide Tasaki		4–5
				Dilantha Malagamuwa		NC
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Daisuke Ito	B	All
Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing	Honda	Honda NSX	64	Dominik Schwager	B	All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	88	Naohiro Furuya	D	All
JLOC	Lamborghini	Lamborghini Diablo GT-1	88	Tsuyoshi Takahashi	D	All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Akira Iida	B	All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft	Honda	Honda NSX	100	Naoki Hattori	B	All

Schedule

Round	Race	Circuit	Date
1	Motegi GT Championship Race	Twin Ring Motegi	April 2
2	All Japan Fuji GT Race	Fuji Speedway	May 4
3	SUGO GT Championship	Sportsland SUGO	May 28
NC	Tmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia	Sepang Circuit	June 25
4	Japan Special GT Cup	Fuji Speedway	August 6
5	GT Championship in TI	TI Circuit	September 10
6	CP Mine GT Race	Mine Circuit	October 1
7	Suzuka GT 300 km	Suzuka Circuit	October 22

Season results

Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Team	GT300 Winning Team
Round	Circuit	GT500 Winning Drivers	GT300 Winning Drivers
1	Twin Ring Motegi	#1 Loctite NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R	#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
1	Twin Ring Motegi	Masami Kageyama Érik Comas	Hideo Fukuyama Hideshi Matsuda
2	Mt. Fuji	#18 Takata Dome Honda NSX	#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
2	Mt. Fuji	Katsutomo Kaneishi Juichi Wakisaka	Hideo Fukuyama Hideshi Matsuda
3	Sportsland SUGO	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#19 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Celica
3	Sportsland SUGO	Daisuke Ito Dominik Schwager	Shigekazu Wakisaka Takahiko Hara
NC	Sepang Circuit	#2 Castrol NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
NC	Sepang Circuit	Ukyo Katayama Michael Krumm	Tetsuya Yamano Haruhiko Matsumoto
4	Mt. Fuji	#8 ARTA Honda NSX	#28 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
4	Mt. Fuji	Keiichi Tsuchiya Aguri Suzuki	Shinsuke Shibahara Hiroaki Suga
5	TI Circuit	#38 FK/Massimo Cerumo Toyota Supra	#910 Racing Porsche 996
5	TI Circuit	Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	Hisashi Wada Atsushi Yogo
6	Mine Circuit	#12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Skyline GT-R	#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
6	Mine Circuit	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Satoshi Motoyama	Hideo Fukuyama Hideshi Matsuda
7	Suzuka Circuit	#64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX	#31 Super Autobacs A'PEX Toyota MR-S
7	Suzuka Circuit	Daisuke Ito Dominik Schwager	Morio Nitta Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1

Rank	Driver	MOT	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	TAI	MIN	SUZ	PTS
1	Ryo Michigami	2	8	2	10	2	4	2	74
2	Érik Comas Masami Kageyama	1	6	Ret	4	3	3	5	68
3	Kazuyoshi Hoshino Satoshi Motoyama	17	5	5	3	6	1	3	66
4	Daisuke Ito Dominik Schwager	3	7	1	9	16	Ret	1	58
5	Hironori Takeuchi Yuji Tachikawa	4	3	12	Ret	1	6	11	48
6	Katsutomo Kaneishi Juichi Wakisaka	Ret	1	4	12	10	2	11	46
7	Hidetoshi Mitsusada					2	4	2	40
8	Michael Krumm	6	2	11	6	11	Ret	4	37
9	Hideki Noda Wayne Gardner	8	4	7	15	7	5	6	35
10	Osamu Nakako	2	8	2	10				34
11	Ukyo Katayama		2	11	6	11	Ret	4	31
12	Masahiko Kageyama Ralph Firman	10	Ret	6	2	Ret	8	16	25
13	Aguri Suzuki Keiichi Tsuchiya	7	Ret	15	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	24
14	Pierre-Henri Raphanel Shinichi Yamaji	12	Ret	3	13	9	Ret	7	18
15	Akira Iida Naoki Hattori	Ret	14	10	7	5	Ret	Ret	13
16	Masahiro Hasemi Tetsuya Tanaka	5	9	Ret	11	15	11	8	13
17	Masanori Sekiya Takeshi Tsuchiya	Ret	12	9	5	14	Ret	9	12
18	Mitsuhiro Kinoshita Manabu Orido	13	10	14	8	8	7	13	11
19	Hideki Okada	Ret	Ret	13	12	4	Ret	Ret	10
19	Tsugio Matsuda					4	Ret	Ret	10
21	Seiji Ara Toshio Suzuki	9	Ret	8	14	12	9	12	7
22	Yuji Ide	6							6
23	Akihiko Nakaya	Ret	11	Ret	Ret	17	10	Ret	1
23	Mikio Hitotsuyama	Ret	11	Ret		17	10	Ret	1
23	Takayuki Kinoshita Masahiko Kondo	11	Ret	16	19	13	Ret	10	1
Rank	Driver	MOT	FUJ	SUG	FUJ	TAI	MIN	SUZ	PTS

Colour	Result
Gold	Winner
Silver	2nd place
Bronze	3rd place
Green	Points finish
Blue	Non-points finish
Blue	Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple	Retired (Ret)
Red	Did not qualify (DNQ)
Red	Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
Black	Disqualified (DSQ)
White	Did not start (DNS)
	Withdrew (WD)
	Race cancelled (C)
Blank	Did not participate (DNP)
	Did not arrive (DNA)
	Excluded (EX)

Drivers

Rank	Drivers	Number/Team	Points	Wins
1	Hideo Fukuyama	#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996	85	3
2	Hideshi Matsuda	#26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996	83	3
3	Hisashi Wada Atsushi Yogo	#910 Racing Porsche 996	80	1
4	Takayuki Aoki Noboyuki Oyagi	#81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia	64	0
5	Tetsuya Yamano Haruhiko Matsumoto	#7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7	57	0

External links

Super GT/JGTC official race archive (in Japanese)
2000 season results

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