2000 FIA GT Lausitzring 500km explained

The 2000 FIA GT Lausitzring 500 km was the eighth round the 2000 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at the Lausitzring, Germany, on September 2, 2000. The event was shared with a round of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters.

Official results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tyre	Laps
					Engine
1	GT	3	Freisinger Motorsport	Hubert Haupt Wolfgang Kaufmann	Porsche 911 GT2		79
					Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6
2	GT	12	Paul Belmondo Racing	Boris Derichebourg Vincent Vosse	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		79
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
3	N-GT	77	RWS Red Bull Racing	Luca Riccitelli Dieter Quester	Porsche 911 GT3-R		79
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
4	N-GT	52	Larbre Compétition Chéreau	Christophe Bouchut Patrice Goueslard	Porsche 911 GT3-R		78
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
5	GT	14	Lister Storm Racing	Jamie Campbell-Walter Julian Bailey	Lister Storm		78
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
6	N-GT	50	Pennzoil Quaker State G-Force	Nigel Smith Magnus Wallinder	Porsche 911 GT3-R		78
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
7	N-GT	56	EMKA GTC	Steve O'Rourke Tim Sugden	Porsche 911 GT3-R		77
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
8	N-GT	79	RWS Red Bull Racing	Patrick Huisman Hans-Jörg Hofer	Porsche 911 GT3-R		76
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
9	GT	25	Carsport Holland	Mike Hezemans David Hart	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		76
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
10	N-GT	53	Larbre Compétition Chéreau	Ferdinand de Lesseps André Ahrlé	Porsche 911 GT3-R		76
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
11	GT	5	Konrad Motorsport	Franz Konrad Jürgen von Gartzen	Porsche 911 GT2		76
					Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6
12	N-GT	55	ART Engineering	Constantino Bertuzzi Pierangelo Masselli	Porsche 911 GT3-R		75
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
13	GT	15	Lister Storm Racing	Nicolaus Springer Philippe Favre	Lister Storm		75
					Jaguar 7.0L V12
14	GT	11	Paul Belmondo Racing	Paul Belmondo Claude-Yves Gosselin	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		75
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
15	N-GT	51	Pennzoil Quaker State G-Force	Richard Nearn Hans Willems	Porsche 911 GT3-R		75
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
16	GT	27	Autorlando	Marco Spinelli Gabriele Sabatini Fabio Villa	Porsche 911 GT2		74
					Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6
17	N-GT	67	MAC Racing	Paolo Roberti Roberto Orlandi	Porsche 911 GT3-R		74
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
18	N-GT	57	ART Engineering	Fabio Mancini Gianni Collini	Porsche 911 GT3-R		73
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
19	GT	7	Proton Competition	Gerold Ried Christian Ried	Porsche 911 GT2		73
					Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6
20	GT	24	Reiter Engineering	Michael Trunk Bernhard Müller	Lamborghini Diablo GT		72
					Lamborghini 6.0L V12
21	GT	8	Haberthur Racing	Andrea Garbagnati Mauro Casadei	Porsche 911 GT2		71
					Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6
22	GT	4	Freisinger Motorsport	Ernst Palmberger Yukihiro Hane	Porsche 911 GT2		71
					Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6
23	N-GT	58	Freisinger Motorsport	Nikolai Fomenko Alexey Vasilyev	Porsche 911 GT3-R		67
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6
24	GT	21	Racing Box	Luca Cappellari Raffaele Sangiuolo Giorgio Tibaldo	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		57
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
25 NC	GT	22	Wieth Racing	Niko Wieth Franz Wieth	Porsche 911 GT2		48
					Porsche 3.8L Turbo Flat-6
26 DSQ^†	GT	2	Chamberlain Motorsport	Walter Brun Toni Seiler	Chrysler Viper GTS-R		44
					Chrysler 8.0L V10
27 DNF	N-GT	60	Haberthur Racing	Michel Ligonnet Michael Neugarten	Porsche 911 GT3-R		22
					Porsche 3.6L Flat-6

† – #2 Chamberlain Motorsport was disqualified for unsporting conduct during the race.

Statistics

• Pole position – #25 Carsport Holland – 1:43.854
• Fastest lap – #14 Lister Storm Racing – 1:43.830
• Average speed – 190.897 km/h

References

• Web site: Results: 2000 Round 8 – Lausitzring . FIA GT Championship . 2 September 2000 . 2007-12-10.
• Web site: 500 km Lausitzring . World Sports Racing Prototypes . 2 October 2005 . 2007-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080914023004/http://wsrp.ic.cz/fiagt2000.html#8 . 2008-09-14 . dead .
• Web site: FIA GT Championship Lausitzring 2000 (Photo Archive) . Racing Sports Cars . 23 September 2002 . 2007-12-10.