The 2000 German Grand Prix (formally the Grosser Mobil 1 Preis von Deutschland 2000)[5] was a Formula One motor race contested on 30 July 2000, at the Hockenheimring in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in front of 102,000 people.

Häkkinen took the race lead, which he retained until lap 25 when an intruder breached circuit limits, forcing drivers to pit under safety car conditions.

Barrichello stayed out on dry slick tyres, grabbing the lead and retaining it to claim his maiden Formula One victory.

The race result tied Häkkinen and Coulthard for second, but it decreased Schumacher's points lead in the World Drivers' Championship to two.

On 30 July 2000, the eleventh of seventeen rounds of the 2000 Formula One World Championship was held at the 6.825 km (4.241 mi) clockwise Hockenheimring near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

[9] Jaguar test driver Luciano Burti damaged his car's suspension, front and rear wings, and sidepod in an accident at Stowe corner.

[20] Jordan's Heinz-Harald Frentzen, BAR driver Ricardo Zonta, Fisichella, Sauber's Mika Salo, Williams' Ralf Schumacher and Herbert rounded out the top ten.

[20][21] Jenson Button spun and slammed against the inside barriers at the pit lane entry after practice ended and rain fell, removing his car's front wing.

Gastón Mazzacane hit the barrier in the stadium section and Marc Gené beached his car in the last turn's gravel trap.

[28][29] Häkkinen set the third session's fastest lap, a 1:44.144, one-tenth of a second quicker than Arrows' Pedro de la Rosa.

[28][31] Jean Alesi simultaneously beached his Prost car in the gravel due to a rear suspension failure on the damp circuit.

[29] Nearly every driver exited the pit lane in the first minutes, giving teams a final chance to significantly adjust their cars before qualifying.

[26][27][40] Fisichella was fined $5,000 for failing to place his car at the pit-lane weighbridge so that the FIA could check if it was within the legal minimum weight limit.

[4] Ten minutes in, Coulthard lapped fastest at 1:44.065;[49] Häkkinen was second in the other McLaren, followed by De La Rosa and Michael Schumacher.

[34] Coulthard spun backwards into the tyre wall at the stadium section's final double right-hand turn after drifting wide onto dust.

[53] When Heidfeld's engine cover detached into the Ostkurve corner, littering the circuit with carbon fibre debris, waved yellow flags were once again required.

[49][51] De La Rosa suffered a right-rear tyre puncture after driving over some carbon fibre debris and stopped on the side of the circuit.

[26] Coulthard steered hard right to obstruct Michael Schumacher's path, allowing teammate Häkkinen to veer left and take the lead.

[56]On lap 25, a man wearing a white raincoat with French writing critical of Mercedes-Benz appeared from beside the barriers and stepped onto the outside edge towards the Ostkurve.

[55] Later, on the approach to the Ayrton Senna chicane, Diniz made a mistake under braking as attempted to pass Alesi and went across him at high speed.

[57] Villeneuve spun after making minor contact with teammate Zonta's rear exiting the first turn on that lap but continued racing.

[56] After technical director Ross Brawn informed Barrichello of Häkkinen's final pit stop,[26] the two agreed he could stay on the track.

[60] Trulli was imposed a ten-second stop-go penalty on lap 37 when marshals reported him for passing Barrichello, who had just exited the pit lane after the first turn.

[56][59] By lap 44, it began raining more heavily, but Barrichello held on to win his first Formula One race and the first for a Brazilian driver since Ayrton Senna in the 1993 Australian Grand Prix in a time of 1'25:34.418.

Ralf Schumacher, Villeneuve, Trulli, Irvine and Mazzacane filled the next five positions, with Heidfeld the final classified driver despite his alternator failure.

[4] Barrichello's first win was widely celebrated among spectators and team personnel,[26][67] because it came after an earlier setback, including a major accident during practice for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix that rendered him unconscious.

[74] Salo regarded his race as "hard" because he chose a high downforce setup, which meant he was slower than his competitors on the straights.

He was identified as Robert Sehli,[78] a 47-year-old French father of three who spent 22 years working at a Mercedes-Benz production factory in Le Mans.

[80] Additional information revealed that he planned to protest 15 seconds before the start of the formation lap but marshals stopped this by dragging him off the circuit.

[79] Sehli had attempted to do something similar at the French Grand Prix before being stopped in the pit lane ten laps before the race ended by the FIA Photographers' Delegate.