2000 FAI 1000

2000 FAI 1000

Event Information
Round 13 of 13 in the 2000 Shell Championship Series
Date	16–19 November 2000
Location	Bathurst, New South Wales
Venue	Mount Panorama Circuit
Weather	Wet
Results
Race 1 Distance 161 laps 1000 km Pole position Wayne Gardner Glenn Seton Racing 2:28.3844 Winner Garth Tander Jason Bargwanna Garry Rogers Motorsport 7:23:30.2348
Round Results First Garth Tander Jason Bargwanna Garry Rogers Motorsport 240 pts Second Paul Radisich Jason Bright Dick Johnson Racing 216 pts Third Steven Richards Greg Murphy Gibson Motorsport 204 pts

The 2000 FAI 1000 was a race for V8 Supercars, held on 19 November 2000 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales Australia. The race was the thirteenth and final round of the 2000 Shell Championship Series. It was the fourth running of the Australia 1000, first held after the organisational split over the Bathurst 1000 that occurred in 1997. It was the 43rd race that traces its lineage back to the 1960 Armstrong 500 held at Phillip Island.

Pole position was claimed by Craig Lowndes and Mark Skaife driving a Holden Commodore VT for the Holden Racing Team, with the race victory going to Garth Tander and Jason Bargwanna also driving a Holden Commodore for Garry Rogers Motorsport. It was held in mostly wet conditions which resulted in several safety car periods. As a result, the average race speed of the winning car was the slowest since the 1974 Bathurst 1000.

The event's naming rights sponsor was FAI Insurance.^[1]