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2000 in motorsport
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Chronology of Motorsport
1999 in motorsport - 2000 in motorsport - 2001 in motorsport
Highlights of the Year 2000 in Automotive Sport
Michael Schumacher wins the Formula 1 World Championship at the wheel of a Ferrari.
Marcus Grönholm (Finland) takes off the World Rally Championship at the wheel of a Peugeot 206 WRC.
Per month
January
Rallye: Tommi Mäkinen wins the Monte-Carlo Rally on a Mitsubishi Lancer.
February
13 February: Marcus Gronholm wins the rally in Sweden.
February 27: Richard burns wins the safari rally.
March
March 11, (Form 1): Australian Grand Prix Auto.
March 19 (Rally): Richard Burns wins the Portuguese rally
March 25, (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile du Brazil.
April
April 2, rally: Colin Mac Rae wins the rally in Catalonia (Spain).
8 April (Formule 1) : Grand Prix automobile de San Marino.
22 April (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile de Grande-Bretagne.
May
8 May (Form 1) : Grand Prix automobile d'Espagne.
May 11 (Rally): Richard Bruns wins Argentina rally
20 May (Form 1): European Grand Prix. German driver Nick Heidfeld (Prost-Peugeot) is excluded from the race.
June
3 June (Formule 1) : Grand Prix automobile de Monaco.
11 June (rally): Colin Mac Rae wins acropolis rally (Greece)
June 15 (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile du Canada.
17 June: start of the sixty-eighth edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
18 June: Audi wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the drivers Frank Biela, Tom Kristensen and Emanuele Pirro.
July
July (Formule 1) : Grand Prix automobile de France.
15 July (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile d'Austria
July 16 (Rally): Marcus Grönholm wins New Zealand rally
29 July (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile d'Allemagne.
Aug.
August 12 (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile de Hungary.
August 20 (rally): Marcus Grönholm wins the rally in Finland.
26 August (Form 1) : Grand Prix automobile de Belgique.
September
9 September (Formule 1) : Grand Prix automobile d'Italie.
September 10 (Rally): Carlos Sainz wins the rally in Cyprus.
September 23 (Form 1): United States Grand Prix automobile.
October
October: Gilles Panizzi wins the Tour de Corse rally.
8 October (Formule 1): German Michael Schumacher won the Japan Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the season, which gave him a third world title, after an intense struggle with his rival Mika Häkkinen. He thus put an end to 21 waiting for the Scuderia Ferrari for the greatest happiness of the tifosis.
21 October (Form 1): Grand Prix automobile de Malaysia.
October 22 (Rally): Gilles Panizzi wins San Remo
November
November 12, rally: Marcus Grönholm wins the rally in Australia.
November 26, rally: Richard Burns wins the Grande-Bretagn rally