Bernd Schneider (left) won his first Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Drivers' Championship while Manuel Reuter (right) finished second in the championship.

The 2000 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the fourteenth season of premier German touring car championship and also first season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the original series' demise in 1996. Nine events were held with two 40-minute races at each racing weekend.

Pre-season

This was the resurrected DTM's first season since the cancellation of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft at the end of 1996. Mercedes returned to the series after their unfortunate CLR Le Mans project along with H.W.A GmbH and AMG. They were joined by Opel, who brought along the Holzer, Phoenix, Irmscher and Euroteam from the German Super Touring Championship (STW) where they had raced in 1999. The resumption of DTM also meant the end of STW. Audi did not enter, but was still represented through the semi-independent Abt Sportsline team. Two additional teams also ran Mercedes; they were Persson Motorsport and Team Rosberg.

Teams and drivers

The following manufacturers, teams and drivers competed in the 2000 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. All teams competed with tyres supplied by Dunlop.

Make	Car	Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Mercedes-Benz	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM 2000	HWA 1	1	Bernd Schneider	All
			2	Thomas Jäger	All
		HWA 2	5	Klaus Ludwig	All
			6	Marcel Fässler	All
		Team Rosberg	14	Pedro Lamy	1–2
			24		3–10
			15	Darren Turner	1–2
			42		3–10
		Persson Motorsport	18	Marcel Tiemann	All
			19	Peter Dumbreck	All
Opel	Opel Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2000	Opel Team Holzer 1	3	Uwe Alzen	All
			4	Joachim Winkelhock	All
		Opel Team Phoenix	7	Manuel Reuter	All
			8	Michael Bartels	All
		Opel Team Holzer 2	11	Éric Hélary	All
			17	Timo Scheider	All
		Opel Team Irmscher	12	Christian Menzel	All
		Euroteam	16	Stefano Modena	All
Audi1	Abt-Audi TT-R 2000	Abt Sportsline 1	9	Laurent Aïello	1, 3–10
			10	Christian Abt	1, 3–10
			23	Roland Asch	2
		Abt Sportsline 2	20	Kris Nissen	All
			21	James Thompson	2, 5–10

1. ^  – Audi did not enter as a manufacturer but Abt Sportsline entered as a semi-independent team.

Race calendar and winners

All races were held in Germany. Each weekend feature two 100 km races, with equal points scales.

Round	Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning manufacturer
1	Hockenheimring	28 May	Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	HWA 1	Mercedes-Benz
				Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	HWA 1	Mercedes-Benz
2	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	18 June	Manuel Reuter	Bernd Schneider	Manuel Reuter	Opel Team Phoenix	Opel
				Manuel Reuter	Manuel Reuter	Opel Team Phoenix	Opel
3	Norisring	9 July	Joachim Winkelhock	Christian Menzel	Joachim Winkelhock	Opel Team Holzer 1	Opel
				Éric Hélary	Bernd Schneider	HWA 1	Mercedes-Benz
4	Sachsenring	6 August	Klaus Ludwig	Marcel Fässler	Klaus Ludwig	HWA 2	Mercedes-Benz
				Bernd Schneider	Klaus Ludwig	HWA 2	Mercedes-Benz
5	Nürburgring	20 August	Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	HWA 1	Mercedes-Benz
				Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	HWA 1	Mercedes-Benz
6	Lausitzring	3 September	Bernd Schneider	Event cancelled due to monsoon conditions[1]
7	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	24 September	Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	Uwe Alzen	Opel Team Holzer 1	Opel
				Bernd Schneider	Bernd Schneider	HWA 1	Mercedes-Benz
8	Nürburgring	8 October	Joachim Winkelhock	Uwe Alzen	Manuel Reuter	Opel Team Phoenix	Opel
				Joachim Winkelhock	Manuel Reuter	Opel Team Phoenix	Opel
9	Hockenheimring	29 October	Manuel Reuter	Manuel Reuter	Uwe Alzen	Opel Team Holzer 1	Opel
				Bernd Schneider	Uwe Alzen	Opel Team Holzer 1	Opel

Drivers' championship

Pos Driver HOC1 OSC1 NOR SAC NÜR1 LAU OSC2 NÜR2 HOC2 Pts 1 Bernd Schneider 1 1 3 12 4 1 3 3 1 1 C C 2 1 2 4 2 NC 221 2 Manuel Reuter 3 13 1 1 3 2 13† 11 5 5 C C 3 2 1 1 16 Ret 162 3 Klaus Ludwig 9 9 8 11 2 3 1 1 2 2 C C 6 3 12 Ret Ret 11 122 4 Marcel Fässler 2 2 9 3 13 7 10 4 3 3 C C NC 12 4 2 5 Ret 116 5 Joachim Winkelhock 10 6 2 2 1 4 Ret 10 9 19 C C NC Ret 5 5 3 2 113 6 Uwe Alzen Ret DNS Ret 9 8 6 Ret Ret 10 13 C C 1 4 3 6 1 1 100 7 Michael Bartels 8 3 18 Ret 5 5 6 6 14 10 C C 7 5 6 8 4 3 87 8 Peter Dumbreck 5 5 11 5 14 9 2 2 6 12 C C NC 6 10 9 7 Ret 75 9 Éric Hélary Ret 7 4 10 15 15 4 16† 8 7 C C 4 10 14 Ret 6 7 53 10 Marcel Tiemann 6 12 10 6 6 Ret 5 5 13 6 C C NC 7 18 12 15 5 53 11 Thomas Jäger 7 14 6 4 7 13 NC 9 7 17 C C DNS 8 7 3 12 8 52 12 Timo Scheider 4 4 5 7 12 11 7 7 16 11 C C 8 9 11 16 11 Ret 45 13 Pedro Lamy 11 Ret 7 8 9 8 NC 12 4 4 C C DNS DNS 8 13 8 10 39 14 Darren Turner 12 8 13 Ret 11 12 8 8 15 8 C C DNS DNS 13 11 10 6 19 15 Stefano Modena 13 10 12 Ret 10 10 14 Ret 19 15 C C Ret DNS Ret DNS 9 4 15 16 Laurent Aïello 15 DNS Ret DNS 12 14 11 14 C C 5 11 9 7 Ret DNS 14 17 Christian Menzel 14 11 14 Ret 16 Ret 9 13 17 9 C C Ret Ret 17 10 Ret DNS 5 18 James Thompson 17 DNS 12 16 C C 9 Ret 15 Ret 13 9 4 19 Christian Abt Ret Ret Ret DNS Ret DNS 18 18 C C 10 Ret 19 14 Ret Ret 1 20 Kris Nissen 16 Ret 16 13† Ret 14 11 15 Ret Ret C C 11 Ret 16 15 14 Ret 0 21 Roland Asch 15 Ret 0 Pos Driver HOC1 OSC1 NOR SAC NÜR1 LAU OSC2 NÜR2 HOC2 Pts Sources:[2][3]

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams' Championship