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2000 International Formula 3000 Championship

Motor racing competition

Teams' Champion: D2 Playlife Super Nova Formula One Support series: Porsche Supercup The 2000 International Formula 3000 season was the thirty-fourth season of the second-tier of Formula One feeder championship and also sixteenth season under the International Formula 3000 Championship moniker. It featured the 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship which was contested over ten rounds from 8 April to 26 August 2000. Bruno Junqueira won the Drivers’ Championship and D2 Playlife Super Nova won the Teams’ title.

For 2000, the FIA imposed an upper limit of 15 teams of 2 cars each, with one of the places reserved for the winning team of the 1999 Italian Formula 3000 Championship; therefore, 7 bottom-ranked teams of 1999 would not have been eligible to advance to the next year. Portman-Arrows team collapsed midway through the 1999 championship, and 6 formerly competing teams were initially excluded from the 2000 championship.

In between the seasons, RSM Marko managed to buy the Oreca's slot (at the same time adopting the name Red Bull Junior Team), Arden merged with Draco, and Coloni bought the slot from Team Martello, the winners of the Italian championship; therefore, only Monaco Motorsport, GP Racing and Durango were left behind. Additionally, West Competition was renamed to mySap.com, and the second Super Nova squad (former Den Blå Avis) continued to operate under the name of Petrobras Junior Team.

As the FIA was changing the operational structure of Formula 3000 for the latter to be more of a proper seeder and supporting series for Formula One, a few F3000 teams announced their collaboration with Formula One teams. European Formula was confirmed as a junior team for Arrows instead of the de-funct Portman team, Team Astromega announced partnership with Minardi, and Super Nova announced two partnerships: with Benetton, as D2 Super Nova, and with Williams, as Petrobras Junior Team (former Den Blå Avis). Additionally, mySap.com was officially recognized as the McLaren junior team, Red Bull Junior Team retained the status of a junior team for Sauber, and Apomatox continued to run under Prost as Gauloises Formula. Although Arden's Darren Manning spent the full year as a BAR test driver, the BAR team opted not to work with Arden, and Ferrari, Jordan, and Jaguar also did not maintain active partnerships with any of the Formula 3000 teams.

Drivers and teams

The following drivers and teams contested the 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship.

Team	No.	Driver	Rounds
GBR MySAP.com	1	FRA Stéphane Sarrazin	1–6
ZAF Tomas Scheckter	7–10
2	CZE Tomáš Enge	All
GBR D2 Playlife Super Nova	3	FRA Nicolas Minassian	All
4	BEL David Saelens	All
BRA Petrobras Junior Team	5	BRA Jaime Melo	All
6	BRA Bruno Junqueira	All
BEL Team Astromega	7	ESP Fernando Alonso	All
8	FRA Fabrice Walfisch	1–6
BEL Marc Goossens	7–10
FRA Gauloises Formula	9	PRT André Couto	All
10	FRA Sébastien Bourdais	All
GBR Kid Jensen Racing	11	ITA Andrea Piccini	All
12	BEL Bas Leinders	All
AUT Red Bull Junior Team	15	BRA Ricardo Mauricio	All
16	BRA Enrique Bernoldi	All
GBR Nordic Racing	17	GBR Kevin McGarrity	All
18	GBR Justin Wilson	All
ITA WRT	19	JPN Hidetoshi Mitsusada	1–3
GBR Marc Hynes	4–6
GBR Dino Morelli	7–8
FRA Soheil Ayari	9–10
20	IDN Ananda Mikola	All
FRA DAMS	21	FRA Franck Montagny	All
22	DNK Kristian Kolby	All
GBR Arden Team Russia	23	GBR Darren Manning	All
24	RUS Viktor Maslov	All
GBR European Arrows F3000	25	AUS Mark Webber	All
26	NLD Christijan Albers	All
BEL Witmeur KTR	27	BEL Jeffrey van Hooydonk	All
28	BEL Yves Olivier	All
GBR Fortec Motorsport	29	BRA Mario Haberfeld	1–3, 6–10
GBR Jamie Davies	4–5
30	10
DEU Andreas Scheld	1–9
ITA Coloni F3000	31	FRA Soheil Ayari	1–7
FRA Fabrice Walfisch	9–10
32	ITA Fabrizio Gollin	All
Sources:

All cars were Lola B99/50s powered by Zytek V8 engines.

Calendar

Round	Circuit	Date	Laps	Distance	Time	Speed	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winner	Winning team	Report	1	2	3	4	5
nowrap	ITA Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	nowrap	8 April	42	4.9325=207.165 km	1'11:06.160	174.816 km/h	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	FRA Stéphane Sarrazin	nowrap	FRA Nicolas Minassian	nowrap	GBR D2 Playlife Super Nova	[Report](2000-imola-f3000-round)
nowrap	GBR Silverstone Circuit	nowrap	22 April	40	5.14=205.60 km	1'22:24.239	149.702 km/h	nowrap	GBR Darren Manning	nowrap	FRA Stéphane Sarrazin	nowrap	AUS Mark Webber	nowrap	GBR European Arrows F3000	[Report](2000-silverstone-f3000-round)
nowrap	ESP Circuit de Catalunya	nowrap	5 May	44	4.728=208.032 km	1'11:52.069	173.679 km/h	nowrap	BRA Enrique Bernoldi	nowrap	AUS Mark Webber	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	BRA Petrobras Junior Team	[Report](2000-barcelona-f3000-round)
nowrap	DEU Nürburgring	nowrap	20 May	45	4.556=205.02 km	1'24:07.032	146.239 km/h	nowrap	BEL David Saelens	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	BRA Petrobras Junior Team	[Report](2000-nurburgring-f3000-round)
nowrap	MCO Circuit de Monaco	nowrap	3 June	50	3.367=168.35 km	1'19:08.755	127.625 km/h	nowrap	BEL David Saelens	nowrap	ESP Fernando Alonso	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	BRA Petrobras Junior Team	[Report](2000-monaco-f3000-round)
nowrap	FRA Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours	nowrap	1 July	49	4.25=208.25 km	1'15:44.627	164.964 km/h	nowrap	FRA Sébastien Bourdais	nowrap	AUS Mark Webber	nowrap	FRA Nicolas Minassian	nowrap	GBR D2 Playlife Super Nova	[Report](2000-magny-cours-f3000-round)
nowrap	AUT A1 Ring	nowrap	15 July	48	4.319=207.312 km	1'10:42.354	175.922 km/h	nowrap	BEL Jeffrey van Hooydonk	nowrap	CZE Tomáš Enge	nowrap	FRA Nicolas Minassian	nowrap	GBR D2 Playlife Super Nova	[Report](2000-a1-ring-f3000-round)
nowrap	DEU Hockenheimring	nowrap	29 July	31	6.823=211.513 km	1'14:50.567	169.566 km/h	nowrap	CZE Tomáš Enge	nowrap	GBR Darren Manning	nowrap	CZE Tomáš Enge	nowrap	GBR MySap.com	[Report](2000-hockenheimring-f3000-round)
nowrap	HUN Hungaroring	nowrap	12 August	52	3.972=206.544 km	1'21:30.052	152.055 km/h	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	BEL Marc Goossens	nowrap	BRA Bruno Junqueira	nowrap	BRA Petrobras Junior Team	[Report](2000-hungaroring-f3000-round)
nowrap	BEL Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	nowrap	26 August	30	6.968=209.04 km	1'08:04.964	184.223 km/h	nowrap	ESP Fernando Alonso	nowrap	ESP Fernando Alonso	nowrap	ESP Fernando Alonso	nowrap	BEL Team Astromega	[Report](2000-spa-francorchamps-f3000-round)
Source:

Final points standings

Teams

15	World Racing Team	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0

Drivers' championship

Pos	Driver	IMO
ITA	SIL
GBR	CAT
ESP	NUR
DEU	MON
MCO	MAG
FRA	A1R
AUT	HOC
DEU	HUN
HUN	SPA
BEL	Points	1	48	2	45	3	21	4	17	5	16	6	15	7	15	8	10	9	9	10	7	11	6	12	6	13	6	14	6	15	5	16	5	17	4	18	4	19	3	20	3	21	3	22	3	23	2	24	1	25	0	26	0	27	0	28	0	29	0	30	0	31	0	32	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	Pos	Driver	IMO
ITA	SIL
GBR	CAT
ESP	NUR
DEU	MON
MCO	MAG
FRA	A1R
AUT	HOC
DEU	HUN
HUN	SPA
BEL	Points
BRA Bruno Junqueira	2	5	1	1	1	13	7	Ret	1	9
FRA Nicolas Minassian	1	11	2	Ret	5	1	1	7	4	3
AUS Mark Webber	3	1	Ret	Ret	Ret	16	4	3	9	16
ESP Fernando Alonso	9		EX	15	Ret	8	Ret	6	Ret	2	*1*
GBR Justin Wilson	8	3	5	Ret	7	9	2	Ret	5	5
CZE Tomáš Enge	5	13	Ret	Ret	DNQ	5	16	1	17	6
BEL David Saelens	Ret	8	3	Ret	3	3	Ret	18	11	4
GBR Darren Manning	12	2	7	Ret	Ret	8	3	13	8	Ret
FRA Sébastien Bourdais	Ret	10	8	4	Ret	2	9	DNS	14	Ret
ITA Fabrizio Gollin	6	DNQ	17	2	10	14	DNQ	Ret	18	Ret
GBR Jamie Davies							8	2									12
BEL Marc Goossens													10	10	19	2
ZAF Tomas Scheckter													18	2	21	DNS
BRA Jaime Melo, Jr.	4	16	14	6	DNQ	17	5	8	DNQ	18
FRA Franck Montagny	Ret	7	6	Ret	6	4	17	Ret	12	Ret
BRA Enrique Bernoldi	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	23	14	6	6	10
BRA Ricardo Mauricio	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	14	3	7
PRT André Couto	Ret	14	10	3	Ret	21	Ret	17	Ret	11
BEL Jeffrey van Hooydonk	13	9	4	Ret	9	19	12	Ret	Ret	Ret
ITA Andrea Piccini	Ret	DNQ	11	9	Ret	12	Ret	4	16	13
GBR Kevin McGarrity	15	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	15	DNQ	11	Ret	DNQ
FRA Stéphane Sarrazin	7	19	9	5	Ret	6
DNK Kristian Kolby	11	12	Ret	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	5	20	15
FRA Soheil Ayari	14	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	22	Ret			13	14
NLD Christijan Albers	Ret	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	7	Ret	DNQ	Ret	8
BEL Bas Leinders	16	Ret	13	Ret	Ret	10	11	DNQ	7	Ret
BEL Yves Olivier	DNQ	20	16	7	DNQ	DNQ	13	16	DNQ	17
BRA Mario Haberfeld	10	17	DNS			11	8	9	15	Ret
FRA Fabrice Walfisch	Ret	Ret	DNQ	Ret	Ret	18					10	DNQ
DEU Andreas Scheld	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	DSQ	11	DNQ	Ret	12	DNQ
IDN Ananda Mikola	Ret	15	19	DNQ	Ret	20	15	DNQ	Ret	DNQ
RUS Viktor Maslov	DNQ	Ret	18	DNQ	Ret	DNQ	Ret	15	DNQ	DNQ
GBR Marc Hynes				DNQ	Ret	Ret
GBR Dino Morelli							DNQ	Ret
JPN Hidetoshi Mitsusada	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ
Sources:

Bold – Pole

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Notes

All drivers used Lola B99/50 chassis, with Zytek V8 engines, and Avon tyres.
Andreas Scheld was disqualified from second place at the European round (Nürburgring) for using an illegal front wing.

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20010611033931/http://www.fia.com/Classements/Class2000/F3000_P_Tot.htm 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship – Drivers] Retrieved on 8 September 2011
[https://web.archive.org/web/20010611035526/http://www.fia.com/Classements/Class2000/F3000_T_Tot.htm 2000 FIA Formula 3000 International Championship – Teams] Retrieved on 8 September 2011
[https://www.grandprix.com/news/the-dust-settles-in-formula-3000.html The dust settles in Formula 3000]
[https://dizzy1000.tripod.com/reviews/review00.htm FIA International F3000 – Season Review 2000]
"FIA Formula 3000 Int. Championship – 2000: Entrylist". Speedsport Magazine.
"F3000 International Championship Entry List 2000". Motorsport Stats.
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"F3000 International Championship Standings 2000". Motorsport Stats.
"FIA Formula 3000 Int. Championship – Season 2000: Results". Speedsport Magazine.
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