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
Template:ENG Ray Mallock Ltd.	Jaguar X-Type	2	David Leslie		BP/Castrol
		23	Template:BEL Vincent Radermacker
		24	Tommy Erdos		Marks and Spencer
Template:ENG West Surrey Racing	MG ZS 180	3	Template:ENG Warren Hughes		MG Sport
		33	Template:ENG Jonny Kane
		32	Template:FRA Yvan Muller		RAC
Template:ENG Arena Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz C-Class W203	4	Template:ENG Darren Turner		Ladbrokes
		9	Template:ENG Stuart Clarke		Debenhams
		49	Peter Dumbreck		House of Fraser
Template:ENG Prodrive Racing	Ford Mondeo II	5	Template:SUI Alain Menu		PepsiMAX
		6	Anthony Reid		Rapid Fit
		55	Template:ENG Tim Harvey		Unilever
		56	Template:ENG Jason Plato		HSBC
Template:ENG Bintcliffe Sport	Saab 9-3	7	Template:ENG Simon Harrison		Cadbury's		Template:ENG John Bintcliffe
		77	Template:ENG Kurt Luby		RyanAir
Template:ENG Triple 8 Race Engineering	Vauxhall Vectra B	8	Template:ENG James Thompson		Vodaphone		John Cleland
		888	Template:ENG Paul O'Neill
		80	Roger Möen		Guinness
		88	Template:ENG Rob Collard		Paddy Power
Template:ENG Vic Lee Racing	Peugeot 406	10	Template:ENG Phil Bennett		Orange
		20	Template:ENG Dan Eaves		Halfords
Template:ENG GR Motorsport	Volvo S60	12	Rickard Rydell		Shell/Helix
		14	Template:ENG James Kaye
Template:ENG Barwell Motorsport	Honda Accord Euro R CL6	16	Template:ENG Mark Lemmer		easyJet
Template:ENG Total Control Racing	Nissan Primera P11	17	Template:ENG Lee Brookes		McDonald's
		18	Allan McNish
Template:ENG Team Dynamics	Honda Accord Euro R CL6	25	Template:ENG Matt Neal		Direct Line
		52	Gordon Shedden
PRO Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	45	Tommy Rustad		Aviva
		46	Toni Roukonen
Template:ENG GA Motorsport	Alfa Romeo 156	66	Mark Blair		Argos		Template:ENG Gary Ayles
Template:ENG Tech-Speed Motorsport	Vauxhall Vectra	99	Template:ENG David Pinkney

Calendar

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

Points system

Points were awarded for each race at an event, to the driver or drivers of a car that completed at least 70% of the race distance, up to a maximum of 200 points per event, 300 for the Nordschleife 1000.

Points format	Position
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th	26th	27th	28th	29th	30th
100 km races, Silverstone and Donnington Race 1	50	40	35	32	30	28	26	24	22	21	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
200 km races and Super Street Format	100	80	70	64	60	56	52	48	44	42	40	38	36	34	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2
Donnington Park Race 2	150	120	105	96	90	84	78	72	66	63	60	57	54	51	48	45	42	39	36	33	30	27	24	21	18	15	12	9	6	3
Snetterton 500	200	160	140	128	120	112	104	96	88	84	80	76	72	68	64	60	56	52	48	44	40	36	32	28	24	20	16	12	8	4
Nordschleife 1000	300	240	210	192	180	168	156	144	132	126	120	114	108	102	96	90	84	78	72	66	60	54	48	42	36	30	24	18	12	6