2000 Dunlop British V8 Supercar Championship

The 2000 Dunlop British V8 Supercar Championship is the first season under British V8 Supercar Championship regulations and the 43rd season of the British Touring Car Championship.

Regulation Changes

With rising costs of the Super Touring era of the BTCC causing a decline in entries, a change in regulations for British Touring Car racing was announced early in 1999. Inspired by the changes recently made for Australian touring car racing, the BTCC will adopt the same Group 3A regulations used in what is now the V8 Supercar Championship and be promoted as the Dunlop British Supercar Championship from the 2000 season. The regulations have also been adopted by the German, French and Italian championships.

In an additional attempt to cut down costs, full factory backed teams will be banned and teams themselves cannot build their own cars. Instead manufacturers will develop cars to sell to teams at a set price which also covers engines. Though they can no longer run full on teams, manufacturers can still provide partial sponsorship and drivers to teams that run their cars.

Dunlop becomes the series title sponsor and also the sole tire supplier, their tire supply cost covered by each team's entry fee.

Entry List

The 32 Racing Entitlement Contracts were assigned to teams as shown below.

Championship entries							Enduro Cup entries
Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds	Sponsors		Endurance co-drivers
Ray Mallock Ltd.	Jaguar X-Type	2	David Leslie		BP/Castrol
		23	Vincent Radermacker
		24	Tommy Erdos		Marks and Spencer
West Surrey Racing	MG ZS 180	3	Warren Hughes
		32	Yvan Muller		RAC
		33	Jonny Kane
Arena Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz C-Class W203	4	Darren Turner		Ladbrokes
		9	Stuart Clarke		Debenhams
		49	Peter Dumbreck		House of Fraser
Prodrive Racing	Ford Mondeo II	5	Alain Menu		PepsiMAX
		6	Anthony Reid		Rapid Fit
		55	Tim Harvey		Unilever
		56	Jason Plato		HSBC
Bintcliffe Sport	Saab 9-3	7	Simon Harrison		Cadbury's		John Bintcliffe
		77	Kurt Luby		RyanAir
Triple 8 Race Engineering	Vauxhall Vectra B	8	James Thompson		Vodaphone		John Cleland
		888
		80	Roger Möen		Guinness
		88	Rob Collard		Paddy Power
Vic Lee Racing	Peugeot 406	10	Phil Bennett		Orange
		20	Dan Eaves		Halfords
GR Motorsport	Volvo S60	12	Rickard Rydell		Shell/Helix
		14	James Kaye
Barwell Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R CL6	16	Mark Lemmer		easyJet
Total Control Racing	Nissan Primera P11	17	Lee Brookes		McDonald's
		18	Allan McNish
Team Dynamics	Honda Accord Euro R CL6	25	Matt Neal		Direct Line
		52	Gordon Shedden
PRO Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	45			Aviva
		46
GA Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	66	Mark Blair		Argos		Gary Ayles
Tech-Speed Motorsport	Vauxhall Vectra	99

Calendar

Round	Race	Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning Driver	No.	Winning Team	Round Winner
1	R1	Devonport Park, Plymouth	23 March
	R2		24 March
2	R3	Brands Hatch Grand Prix, Kent	6 April
	R4
	R5		7 April
3	R6	Silverstone Grand Prix, Northamptonshire	21 April
	R7
	R8		22 April
	R9		23 April
4	R10	Thruxton Circuit, Hampshire	29 April
	R11
	R12		30 April
5	R13	Knockhill Circuit, Fife	13 May
	R14
	R15		14 May
6	R16	Oulton Park International, Cheshire	27 May
	R17
	R18		28 May
7	R19	Croft Circuit, North Yorkshire	24 June
	R20
	R21		25 June
8	R22	Snetterton Circuit, Norfolk	16 July
9	R23	Nürburgring Nordschleife, Nürburg	6 August
10	R24	Pembrey Circuit, Carmarthenshire	26 August
	R25
	R26		27 August
11	R27	Donington Park Grand Prix, Leicestershire	9 September
	R28		10 September
12	R29	Birmingham Superprix, Birmingham	23 September
	R30		24 September