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 , abbreviated as JSPC, formed by the Japan Automobile Federation, was a domestic championship which took place in Japan for Group C and IMSA GTP prototype cars and also featured cars that were eligible for touring car racing in its earlier ...
. The GT500 class drivers' champion of 2000 was
Ryo Michigami
is a Japanese racing driver. Currently he is driving a Honda NSX GT3 Evo for Modulo Drago Corse in Super GT. He won the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship in 2000.
He competed in the GT500 category of the Super GT series in 1995 and the ...
driving the No. 16
Castrol
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Mugen Honda NSX
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The origins of the NSX trace back to 1984, with the HP-X (Honda Pininfarina eXperimental) concept, which was a mid-en ...
, with
Mugen x
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Project winning the teams' championship. The GT300 class drivers' champion was the No. 26
Advan Team Taisan Jr
Porsche 996
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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
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(in GT500 only) and
2003
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(in both GT500 and GT300).
Drivers and teams
GT500
Schedule
Season results
Standings
GT500 class
Drivers' standings
;Scoring system:
Teams' standings
For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship.
GT300 class (Top 5)
Drivers
References
External links
Super GT/JGTC official race archive
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Super GT seasons
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