2000 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship Explained

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 drivers' champion of 2000 was Ryo Michigami driving the No. 16 Castrol Mugen Honda NSX, with Mugen x Dome Project winning the teams' championship. The GT300 class drivers' champion was the No. 26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996 driven by Hideo Fukuyama.

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).

Drivers and teams

GT500

TeamMakeCarEngineDriversTyreRounds
NismoNissanNissan Skyline GT-RNissan RB26DETT 2.7 L Twin Turbo I61 Érik ComasAll
Masami KageyamaAll
2 Michael KrummAll
Yuji Ide1
Ukyo Katayama2–7, NC
Hasemi MotorsportNissanNissan Skyline GT-RNissan RB26DETT 2.7 L Twin Turbo I63 Masahiro HasemiAll
Tetsuya TanakaAll
Esso Toyota Team LeMansToyotaToyota SupraToyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I46 Wayne GardnerAll
Hideki NodaAll
Autobacs Racing Team AguriHondaHonda NSXHonda C32B 3.5 L V68 Aguri SuzukiAll
Keiichi TsuchiyaAll
Calsonic Team ImpulNissanNissan Skyline GT-RNissan RB26DETT 2.7 L Twin Turbo I612 Kazuyoshi HoshinoAll
Satoshi MotoyamaAll
Team Sri LankaRGSRGS Mirage GT1Chevrolet LS1 6.7 L V815 Dilantha Malagamuwa4, 6
Hideyuki Tamamoto4, 6
69 Dilantha Malagamuwa2–3
Steve Young2
Hideyuki Tamamoto3
Mugen x Dome ProjectHondaHonda NSXHonda C32B 3.5 L V616All
Osamu Nakako1–4, NC
Hidetoshi Mitsusada5–7
18 Katsutomo KaneishiAll
Juichi WakisakaAll
Hitotsuyama RacingMcLarenMcLaren F1 GTRBMW S70/2 6.0 L V1221 Akihiko Nakaya1–7
Mikio Hitotsuyama1–3, 5–7
Yasushi Hitotsuyama4
Tsuchiya EngineeringToyotaToyota SupraToyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I425 Mitsuhiro KinoshitaAll
Manabu OridoAll
Team Take OneMcLarenMcLaren F1 GTRBMW S70/2 6.0 L V1230 Hideki Okada1–7
Yoji Yamada1–4
Tsugio Matsuda5–7
Toyota Team CerumoToyotaToyota SupraToyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I432 Masahiko KondoAll
Takayuki Kinoshita1–7
Yuji TachikawaNC
38 Yuji Tachikawa1–7
Hironori Takeuchi1–7
Toyota Team TOM'SToyotaToyota SupraToyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I435 Shinichi Yamaji1–7
Pierre-Henri Raphanel1–7
36 Masanori SekiyaAll
Takeshi TsuchiyaAll
37 Seiji AraAll
Toshio Suzuki1–7
Shinichi YamajiNC
Denso Toyota Team SARDToyotaToyota SupraToyota 3S-GT 2.0 L Turbo I439 Ralph FirmanAll
Masahiko KageyamaAll
Team Taisan AdvanChryslerChrysler Viper GTS-RChrysler Viper 8.0 L V1055 Hiroaki Suga1–2
Shinsuke Shibahara1–2
Eiji Yamada4–5, NC
Takahide Tasaki4–5
Dilantha MalagamuwaNC
Mobil 1 Nakajima RacingHondaHonda NSXHonda C32B 3.5 L V664 Daisuke ItoAll
Dominik SchwagerAll
JLOCLamborghiniLamborghini Diablo GT-1Lamborghini L532 6.0 L V1288 Naohiro FuruyaAll
Tsuyoshi TakahashiAll
Raybrig Team Kunimitsu with MooncraftHondaHonda NSXHonda C32B 3.5 L V6100 Akira IidaAll
Naoki HattoriAll

GT300

TeamMakeCarEngineDriversTyreRounds
Porsche Club MalaysiaPorschePorsche 993 RSPorsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F65 Key Soon YueNC
Ila RidakNC
RE Amemiya RacingMazdaMazda RX-7Mazda RE20B 2.0 L 3-rotor7 Tetsuya YamanoAll
Haruhiko MatsumotoAll
Team DaikokuyaPorschePorsche 993 RSRPorsche M64/80 3.8 L F69 Tsunefumi Hioki1–2, 4–5, 7
Shuroku Sasaki1
Yukihiro Hane2, 5
Akira Watanabe4, 7
27 Kota Sasaki1
Seigo Nishizawa1
Akira Hirakawa5
Toshihide Hashimura5
Ability MotorsportPorschePorsche 993 GT2Porsche M64/82 3.6 L Turbo F610 Yasutaka Hinoi1–4
Yutaka Yamagishi1–4
11 Kengo Kitaura1–5, 7
Hikaru Miyagi1–4
Yasutaka Hinoi5–7
Jun Kinoshita6
Racing Project BandohToyotaToyota CelicaToyota 3S-GE 2.0 L I419 Shigekazu WakisakaAll
Takahiro HaraAll
TOM'S SpiritToyotaToyota MR-SToyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I420 Masahiro Matsunaga4–7
Kumi Sato4–7
MTCI Racing TeamPorschePorsche 986 BoxsterPorsche M64/75 3.6 L F624 Kazuyuki NishizawaAll
Marco ApicellaAll
Team TaisanPorschePorsche 996 GT3-RPorsche M64/75 3.6 L F626 Hideshi MatsudaAll
Hideo FukuyamaAll
Atsushi YogoNC
28 Hiroaki SugaAll
Shinsuke ShibaharaAll
ChryslerChrysler Viper GTS-RChrysler Viper 8.0 L V1055 Eiji Yamada6–7
Takahide Tasaki6–7
Super Autobacs Racing with A'PEXToyotaToyota MR-SToyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I431 Morio NittaAll
Yudai Igarashi1–3
Shinichi Takagi4–7
Auto Staff RacingNissanNissan Silvia (S15)Nissan SR20DET 2.1 L Turbo I451 Seiichi Sodeyama2–7
Eiji Yamada2–3
Naofumi Omoto4–7
Team GaikokuyaPorschePorsche 993 TurboPorsche M64/60 3.6 L Turbo F670 Yoshimi IshibashiAll
Patrick van Schoote1–2, NC, 4, 7
Nobuo Komiya3, 5–6
SigmaTec Racing TeamPorschePorsche 993 GT2Porsche M64/82 3.6 L Turbo F671 Guts Jyonai2–7
Naohiro Kawano2–4
Masanobu Takenaka5–7
Cusco RacingSubaruSubaru Impreza WRX STISubaru EJ20 2.0 L Turbo F477 Katsuo KobayashiAll
Tatsuya TanigawaAll
Team DaishinNissanNissan Silvia (S15)Nissan SR20DET 2.1 L Turbo I481 Nobuyuki OhyagiAll
Takayuki AokiAll
KRAFTToyotaToyota Corolla Sprinter Trueno (AE86)Toyota 3S-GTE 2.0 L Turbo I486 Minoru Tanaka2–7
Koji Matsuda2–7
Team MindToyotaToyota Corolla (AE101)Toyota 3S-GE 2.0 L I4101 Hiroshi Sasaki4
Mamoru Suzuki4
Team GainerFerrariFerrari F355Ferrari F129B 3.5 L V8111 Junichi Ikura1, 2, 4–5, 7
Yusei Maki1, 2, 4–5, 7
Dentaire ProJet RacingPorschePorsche 993 RSRPorsche M64/80 3.8 L F6360 Seigo Nishizawa4–5, 7
Kota Sasaki4–5, 7
910 RacingPorschePorsche 996 GT3 RSPorsche M64/75 3.6 L F6910 Hisashi WadaAll
Atsushi YogoAll
911 Masamitsu Ishihara1–4, 7
Jukuchou Sunako1–4, 7

Schedule

RoundRaceCircuitDate
1Motegi GT Championship Race Twin Ring MotegiApril 2
2All Japan Fuji GT Race Fuji SpeedwayMay 4
3SUGO GT Championship Sportsland SUGOMay 28
NCTmtouch Japan GT Championship Malaysia Sepang CircuitJune 25
4Japan Special GT Cup Fuji SpeedwayAugust 6
5GT Championship in TI TI CircuitSeptember 10
6CP Mine GT Race Mine CircuitOctober 1
7Suzuka GT 300 km Suzuka CircuitOctober 22

Season results

RoundCircuitGT500 Winning TeamGT300 Winning Team
GT500 Winning DriversGT300 Winning Drivers
1Twin Ring Motegi
  1. 1 Loctite NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R
  1. 26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
Masami Kageyama
Érik Comas
Hideo Fukuyama
Hideshi Matsuda
2Mt. Fuji
  1. 18 Takata Dome Honda NSX
  1. 26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
Hideo Fukuyama
Hideshi Matsuda
3Sportsland SUGO
  1. 64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX
  1. 19 Racing Project Bandoh Toyota Celica
Daisuke Ito
Dominik Schwager
Shigekazu Wakisaka
Takahiko Hara
NCSepang Circuit
  1. 2 Castrol NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R
  1. 7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
4Mt. Fuji
  1. 28 Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
5TI Circuit
  1. 38 FK/Massimo Cerumo Toyota Supra
  1. 910 Racing Porsche 996
Hironori Takeuchi
Yuji Tachikawa
Hisashi Wada
Atsushi Yogo
6Mine Circuit
  1. 12 Calsonic Impul Nissan Skyline GT-R
Hideo Fukuyama
Hideshi Matsuda
7Suzuka Circuit
  1. 64 Mobil 1 Honda NSX
Daisuke Ito
Dominik Schwager
Morio Nitta
Shinichi Takagi

Standings

GT500 class

Drivers' standings

Scoring system:
Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th
Points 20 15 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1
RankDriverMOT
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
TAI
MIN
SUZ
PTS
1 Ryo Michigami2821024274
2 Érik Comas
Masami Kageyama
16Ret433568
3 Kazuyoshi Hoshino
Satoshi Motoyama
1755361366
4 Daisuke Ito
Dominik Schwager
371916Ret158
5 Hironori Takeuchi
Yuji Tachikawa
4312Ret161148
6 Katsutomo Kaneishi
Juichi Wakisaka
Ret14171021546
7 Hidetoshi Mitsusada24240
8 Michael Krumm6211611Ret437
9 Hideki Noda
Wayne Gardner
8471575635
10 Osamu Nakako2821034
11 Ukyo Katayama211611Ret431
12 Masahiko Kageyama
Ralph Firman
10Ret62Ret81625
13 Aguri Suzuki
Keiichi Tsuchiya
7Ret151RetRetDSQ24
14 Pierre-Henri Raphanel
Shinichi Yamaji
12Ret3139Ret718
15 Akira Iida
Naoki Hattori
Ret141075RetDSQ13
16 Masahiro Hasemi
Tetsuya Tanaka
59Ret111511813
17 Masanori Sekiya
Takeshi Tsuchiya
Ret129514Ret912
18 Mitsuhiro Kinoshita
Manabu Orido
1310148871311
19 Hideki OkadaRetRet13124RetRet10
Tsugio Matsuda
21 Seiji Ara
Toshio Suzuki
9Ret814129127
22 Yuji Ide66
23 Akihiko Nakaya1411RetRet1710Ret1
Mikio Hitotsuyama
23 Takayuki Kinoshita
Masahiko Kondo
11Ret161913Ret101
RankDriverMOT
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
TAI
MIN
SUZ
PTS

Teams' standings

For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.[1]

RankTeamNo.MOT
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
TAI
MIN
SUZ
PTS
1Mugen x Dome Project162821024296
1819Ret141710215
2Nismo11620Ret433579
2621161116Ret4
3Team Impul121755361366
4Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing6437191620Ret158
5Toyota Team Cerumo38431220Ret161148
6Esso Ultron Toyota Team LeMans68471575635
7Toyota Team SARD391021Ret6219Ret81625
8Autobacs Racing Team Aguri8715Ret15120Ret17Ret19DSQ24
9MatsumotoKiyoshi Team TOM'S351219Ret313914Ret718
10Toyota Castrol Team TOM'S3621Ret12951419Ret917
37920Ret81412912
11Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft10018Ret14107513Ret20DSQ13
11Hasemi Motorsports35918Ret111511813
13Endless + Tsuchiya Engineering251310148871311
14Team Take One3020Ret16Ret1312418Ret17Ret10
15Hitotsuyama Racing21141119Ret21Ret171018Ret1
15cdma One Toyota Team Cerumo with Key's321117Ret16191315Ret101
-JLOC88151317161812140
-Team Taisan Advan551618Ret1821PO0
rowspan="2"-Team Sri Lanka15292829DNS21DNR290
692821DNS21DNQ2928
RankTeamNo.MOT
FUJ
SUG
FUJ
TAI
MIN
SUZ
PTS

GT300 class (Top 5)

Drivers

Rankwidth=160Driverswidth=240Number/TeamPointsWins
1 Hideo Fukuyama
  1. 26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
853
2 Hideshi Matsuda
  1. 26 Advan Team Taisan Jr Porsche 996
833
3 Hisashi Wada
Atsushi Yogo
  1. 910 Racing Porsche 996
801
4 Takayuki Aoki
Noboyuki Oyagi
  1. 81 Team Daishin Nissan Silvia
640
5 Tetsuya Yamano
Haruhiko Matsumoto
  1. 7 RE Amemiya Mazda RX-7
570

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2000 AUTOBACS CUP ALL JAPAN GT CHAMPIONSHIP - Point Ranking. 2021-10-16. supergt.net.