More so than most in recent years the 2000 Grand Prix Season could be described as a two horse race with Ferrari and McLaren sharing all of the glory. Even though Ferrari eventually won both the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championship titles McLaren was never far behind and they even had a few weeks in the lead until Michael Schumacher dominated the last quarter of the season with four straight wins from pole position.

Ferrari had 10 wins (Michael Schumacher 9, Rubens Barrichello 1 ) and 10 poles (Michael Schumacher 9, Rubens Barrichello 1) to McLaren’s seven wins (Mika Hakkinen 4, David Coulthard 3) and seven poles (Mika Hakkinen 5, David Coulthard 2).

Surprisingly — considering the emphasis placed on qualifying in first place due to the supposed difficulty in passing on today’s GP circuits — only seven races were won from the pole (Michael Schumacher 5, Mika Hakkinen 2) and in the other 10 the winner was not even from the same team as the pole-sitter.

Apart from wins and poles Ferrari and McLaren had most of the podium places tied up as well. Between the two of them they collected 43 of the 51 possible podium spots missing only one second place and seven third places. Those eight spots were shared by just three other drivers; Giancarlo Fisichella (Benetton) 1 second and 2 third places, Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Jordan) 3 third places and Ralf Schumacher (Williams) 3 third places.

Two teams (Minardi and Prost) failed to score a single point towards the Constructors’ Championship all season.

Six regular drivers (Johnny Herbert [Jaguar], Marc Gene and Gaston Mazzacane [Minardi], Jean Alesi and Nick Heidfeld [Prost] and Pedro Diniz [Sauber]) failed to score a single Drivers’ Championship point all season. Luciano Burti failed to score in his single start for Jaguar.

The average number of finishers in each race was 13.

There were no serious driver injuries all season. Eddie Irvine (Jaguar) was the only driver unable to start a race and that was due to some unexplained stomach pains before the Austrian GP.