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
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
Tetsuya Tanaka All
Esso Toyota Team LeMans Toyota Toyota Supra 6 Wayne Gardner B All
Hideki Noda All
Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Honda Honda NSX 8 Aguri Suzuki B All
Keiichi Tsuchiya All
Calsonic Team Impul Nissan Nissan Skyline GT-R 12 Kazuyoshi Hoshino B All
Satoshi Motoyama All
Team Sri Lanka Mirage Mirage GT1 15 Dilantha Malagamuwa Y 4, 6
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
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
Manabu Orido 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
Hironori Takeuchi 1–7
Toyota Team TOM'S Toyota Toyota Supra 35 Shinichi Yamaji M 1–7
Pierre-Henri Raphanel 1–7
36 Masanori Sekiya All
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
Masahiko Kageyama 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
Dominik Schwager All
JLOC Lamborghini Lamborghini Diablo GT-1 88 Naohiro Furuya D All
Tsuyoshi Takahashi All
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft Honda Honda NSX 100 Akira Iida B All
Naoki Hattori 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
GT500 Winning Drivers GT300 Winning Drivers
1 Twin Ring Motegi #1 Loctite NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R #26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
Masami Kageyama
Érik Comas
Hideo Fukuyama
Hideshi Matsuda
2 Mt. Fuji #18 Takata Dome Honda NSX #26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
Katsutomo Kaneishi
Juichi Wakisaka
Hideo Fukuyama
Hideshi Matsuda
3 Sportsland SUGO #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #19 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Celica
Daisuke Ito
Dominik Schwager
Shigekazu Wakisaka
Takahiko Hara
NC Sepang Circuit #2 Castrol NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R #7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
Ukyo Katayama
Michael Krumm
Tetsuya Yamano
Haruhiko Matsumoto
4 Mt. Fuji #8 ARTA Honda NSX #28 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
Keiichi Tsuchiya
Aguri Suzuki
Shinsuke Shibahara
Hiroaki Suga
5 TI Circuit #38 FK/Massimo Cerumo Toyota Supra #910 Racing Porsche 996
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
Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Satoshi Motoyama
Hideo Fukuyama
Hideshi Matsuda
7 Suzuka Circuit #64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX #31 Super Autobacs A'PEX Toyota MR-S
Daisuke Ito
Dominik Schwager
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 Drivers

Scoring system
Position1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th9th10th
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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
Tsugio Matsuda
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
Mikio Hitotsuyama
23 Takayuki Kinoshita
Masahiko Kondo
11 Ret 16 19 13 Ret 10 1
Rank Driver MOT
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
TAI
MIN
SUZ
PTS
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid 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
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