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).
| 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 |
| Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | 20 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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For teams that entered multiple cars, only the best result from each round counted towards the teams' championship. [1]
| Rank | Team | No. | MOT | FUJ | SUG | FUJ | TAI | MIN | SUZ | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mugen x Dome Project | 16 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 96 |
| 18 | Ret | 1 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 15 | |||
| 2 | Nismo | 1 | 1 | 6 | Ret | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 79 |
| 2 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 11 | Ret | 4 | |||
| 3 | Team Impul | 12 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 66 |
| 4 | Mobil 1 Nakajima Racing | 64 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 16 | Ret | 1 | 58 |
| 5 | Toyota Team Cerumo | 38 | 4 | 3 | 12 | Ret | 1 | 6 | 11 | 48 |
| 6 | Esso Ultron Toyota Team LeMans | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 35 |
| 7 | Toyota Team SARD | 39 | 10 | Ret | 6 | 2 | Ret | 8 | 16 | 25 |
| 8 | Autobacs Racing Team Aguri | 8 | 7 | Ret | 15 | 1 | Ret | Ret | DSQ | 24 |
| 9 | MatsumotoKiyoshi Team TOM'S | 35 | 12 | Ret | 3 | 13 | 9 | Ret | 7 | 18 |
| 10 | Toyota Castrol Team TOM'S | 36 | Ret | 12 | 9 | 5 | 14 | Ret | 9 | 17 |
| 37 | 9 | Ret | 8 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 12 | |||
| 11 | Team Kunimitsu with Mooncraft | 100 | Ret | 14 | 10 | 7 | 5 | Ret | DSQ | 13 |
| 11 | Hasemi Motorsports | 3 | 5 | 9 | Ret | 11 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 13 |
| 13 | Endless + Tsuchiya Engineering | 25 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 11 |
| 14 | Team Take One | 30 | Ret | Ret | 13 | 12 | 4 | Ret | Ret | 10 |
| 15 | Hitotsuyama Racing | 21 | 14 | 11 | Ret | Ret | 17 | 10 | Ret | 1 |
| 15 | cdma One Toyota Team Cerumo with Key's | 32 | 11 | Ret | 16 | 19 | 13 | Ret | 10 | 1 |
| - | JLOC | 88 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 16 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 0 |
| - | Team Taisan Advan | 55 | 16 | Ret | 18 | PO | 0 | |||
| - | Team Sri Lanka | 15 | DNS | DNR | 0 | |||||
| 69 | DNS | DNQ | ||||||||
| Rank | Team | No. | MOT | FUJ | SUG | FUJ | TAI | MIN | SUZ | PTS |
| 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 |
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