2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship

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

The 2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship was the 7th season of Japan GT premiere racing. The GT500 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.

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

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 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

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

GT300 Class (Top 5)

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 (Japanese)
• 2000 season results