2000 FIA GT Championship
Rnd Race Circuit Date
1 Valencia 500 km Circuit de Valencia , Cheste , Spain 26 March
2 Estoril 500 km Autódromo do Estoril , Estoril , Portugal 2 April
3 Monza 500 km Autodromo Nazionale Monza , Monza , Italy 16 April
4 P & O Stena Line Silverstone 500x2 Silverstone Circuit , Silverstone , United Kingdom 14 May
5 MOL FIA GT Hungaroring Hungaroring , Mogyoród , Hungary 2 July
6 Zolder 500 km Zolder Circuit , Zolder , Belgium 23 July
7 500 km A1-Ring A1-Ring , Spielberg , Austria 6 August
8 Lausitz 200 EuroSpeedway Lausitz , Klettwitz , Germany 2 September
9 Česká pojišťovna Racing Weekend Autodrom Brno Masaryk , Brno , Czech Republic 17 September
10 Trophee Ecospace d'Automne Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours , Magny-Cours , France 22 October
Schedule
The FIA GT Championship became a European-only series for 2000 , dropping all fly-away races in North America and Asia . The two German rounds at Hockenheimring and Oschersleben were replaced by a single race at EuroSpeedway Lausitz , while the A1-Ring returned to the series after a one-year absence . Valencia , Estoril , Brno , and Magny-Cours were all new events for the series . Donington Park was the only other European event not kept for 2000 . All events were held over a distance of 500 km ( 310 mi ) .
The 2000 FIA GT Championship was the fourth season of FIA GT Championship, an auto racing series endorsed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO). The races featured grand touring cars divided into two categories and awarded drivers and teams championships and cups for each category. The season began on 26 March 2000 and ended 22 October 2000 after ten races all held in Europe. After the 1999 season featured just a single category of cars competing, the FIA GT Championship once again became a two-class series for 2000 with the introduction of the Group N-GT cars by the FIA. The new category slotted below the former GT2 class of cars from 1997-1999, now renamed to just GT, and was awarded an FIA cup instead of a full FIA championship. Britons Julian Bailey and Jamie Campbell-Walter won the GT Drivers' Championship with five victories, driving for the GT team champions Lister Storm Racing in their first full season of FIA GT competition. Christophe Bouchut and Patrice Goueslard of Larbre Compétition Chereau were the inaugural N-GT Cup champions.