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Race weekends × countries — your flag travels the world
For National Tourism Organizations · Ministries · Trade Associations
Put Your Flag On The Grid.
The GT Global Championship is the world championship where countries are represented — GT4 is the nations class, and the Nations Trophy scores every driver's points for their flag across nine race weekends in seven countries. This page explains, step by step, how a national organization funds its country's presence, who runs the team, and how quickly it can happen.
01 · What You'd Be Funding, In One Paragraph
A race car carrying your country's flag and your destination brand, competing across a season staged in the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and Canada — with a nations standings table updated every round, an anthem for every winning driver's country, a season-long documentary camera, and a $500,000 Nations Champion's Fund paid at season's end to the winning country's program. Your nation's story, told in eight other countries, roughly every six weeks, all year. And for trade bodies, the same car is a rolling trade mission: an export showcase in nine markets, with paddock hospitality built for hosting the buyers, investors, and partners your members want in a room.
$500K
Nations Champion's Fund — to the winning country's program
$310M
What tourist boards already spend yearly on team sponsorships (YouGov 2026)
57%
of UAE residents travel for sport — the world's highest (YouGov)
Precedents your peers have set: Visit Rwanda × Arsenal (tourism revenue +47% to $650M since the deal began, per RDB) · Visit Qatar × the brand-new Audi F1 team · Bahrain and the UAE fund entire nation-branded professional cycling teams through sovereign entities · New Zealand's government invested $33.75M directly in its America's Cup team.
02 · Three Ways In — Pick Your Speed
Available now · Fastest start
National Driver Programme Indicative: from $150K / season
Your country's drivers are already on our grid — or joining it. You fund their national presence: your flag and destination brand on their car, their points scoring for your country in the Nations Trophy, and the rights to tell their story at home.
- Live from the first season — no team to build, no infrastructure required
- Mid-season and season-end media reports in standard tourism-marketing metrics
The strategic move · Reserve the flag
Hold Your Slot + Driver Development Indicative: $250K reservation + from $500K / season
One license exists per country — ever. Reserving it means no one else can carry your flag. Development begins immediately: championship-network drivers race under your flag from the next available round while we scout, license, and develop your own nationals into the seats. The flag flies first; the homegrown drivers arrive on a published pathway.
- Exclusive national license held in your partnership's name (licensed from the championship — see §04)
- Footage and imagery rights for your own campaigns; driver appearance days as destination ambassadors
- Governments already budget for exactly this: India's national sports fund earmarks 10%+ of federation grants for development abroad; Malaysia bases funded athletes in 13 countries
The full presence · Turnkey
Full National Entry Indicative: from $1.5M / season
Team [Your Country] on the grid: car, professional crew, two drivers (with at least one national or a national on the development pathway), full flag-and-destination livery, hospitality for your delegations and trade guests at all nine rounds — operated end-to-end by the championship. One contract, one invoice, one accountable management team, quarterly transparent budget reporting.
- You buy the outcome, not the complexity — no motorsport expertise required on your side
- Full content package: campaign-ready footage rights, driver ambassador days, and a country feature in the championship's season documentary
- National sponsor categories (your airline, telecom, bank) can be layered on to share the cost
03 · Step By Step — From First Call To Flag On Grid
Introductory call & fit memo Week 1
Thirty minutes. We map your objectives (arrivals, markets, trade showcase) to the calendar and send a two-page fit memo your team can circulate internally.
Memorandum of Understanding Weeks 2–4
A non-binding MOU states the intent, the package, and the timeline — the instrument governments use to move fast (the India–MotoGP partnership began exactly this way). Public announcement optional at this stage.
Your approval pack — prepared by us Weeks 3–6
We hand your team everything internal approval needs: media-value projections in Nielsen-standard language (QI media value, equivalent advertising value, visit-intent lift), an independent fair-market-value assessment of the package, a precedent dossier of peer tourism-board deals, and — where your procurement rules require it — a drafted sole-source justification (the championship is the only nationality-based GT world championship platform; frameworks like US FAR 6.302-1 explicitly recognize athletic events as sole-source eligible).
Contract, sized for agency signature Weeks 6–10
Packages are deliberately structured to fit an existing tourism-marketing budget line and an agency-level signature — with multi-year terms and annual step-ups available so the first-year number stays inside your authority. (Rwanda's development board signed Arsenal directly; Malta's tourism authority signs its own team deals; the deals that stall are the ones that need new appropriations.)
Your flag is on the grid Next available round
Livery unveiled, drivers announced, hospitality scheduled, reporting calendar set. From this point your country appears in the nations standings every round — and competes for the $500,000 Nations Champion's Fund.
The flag flies first. The structure grows behind it.
04 · Who Controls What — The Part Your Lawyers Will Ask
The championship uses the same rights architecture as the World Cup and the Olympics, because it is the only one that protects everyone — including you:
The championship permanently owns all country marks, team identities, media and commercial rights. FIFA owns the World Cup; national associations participate under license. The IOC owns the rings; one National Olympic Committee per country is recognized. Here, exactly one national license exists per country, held under conditions: sporting standards, financial transparency, and independence from political appointment (mirroring FIFA's own government-non-interference statutes).
Why this protects your money: a licensed entry cannot be sold out from under you, cannot relocate your flag, and cannot fail invisibly — series-operated teams run on transparent budgets with quarterly reporting, and if any operator underperforms, the championship steps in and operates the entry directly (the same mechanism FIFA uses when it imposes a normalisation committee on a failing federation). And whatever happens to structures, your country's drivers can always be represented through the Nations Trophy — representation never depends on bureaucracy.
The upside path: as your national program matures — sponsors, fans, drivers — the entry can graduate from championship-operated to a licensed national operator, and ultimately to a franchise conversation in which founding national partners hold first refusal. The closest precedent: SailGP launched with all six national teams owned and operated by the league, then sold them as they matured — early teams valued at $5–10M have since changed hands for $60M.
05 · What Founding National Partners Also Unlock
A Home Round
The calendar grows — founding national partners hold priority in future host-round conversations. The endgame isn't only your flag abroad; it's the championship racing in your country.
The World Cup
The championship's long-term ambition is the GTGC World Cup — a nations event with host bidding. Founding partners are first in that room.
The Franchise
If country entries are ever offered as franchises, founding national partners hold first refusal on their flag.
06 · Questions Officials Ask
Who owns "Team [Our Country]"?
The championship owns the identity and licenses it — exactly as FIFA owns the World Cup. Your organization is the founding national partner: your branding, your story rights, your first-refusal position on the future franchise. What you never carry is the risk of owning a race team.
We have no racing team and no drivers. Can we still be on the grid?
Yes — that is the design. The championship operates the entry (car, crew, logistics, management) and fields drivers from its professional network under your flag immediately, while your own nationals are scouted and developed into the seats on a published pathway. You fund it; we run it; your flag races now.
We have drivers but no team.
Even faster: the National Driver Programme puts your flag and brand with them this season, and their points already count for your country.
What exactly does our money pay for?
A published, transparent budget: car and equipment, professional crew, entry and logistics for nine rounds, driver development where applicable, and a championship management fee. Quarterly reporting. Your funding is a purchase of defined deliverables — never an open-ended subsidy.
How do we justify this internally?
We supply the approval pack: Nielsen-language media-value projections, an independent fair-market-value assessment, a peer-precedent dossier ($310M/year is already spent by tourist boards on team sponsorship), and a drafted sole-source justification where procurement rules apply. You measure us the way you measure any campaign — and we report in those units every season.
Can our national companies join?
Yes — the airline, telecom, bank, and brewery categories on your country's entry are reserved for your market's brands, and can carry part of the cost alongside the public partner.
When and how do we pay?
Installments aligned to your fiscal year, in your preferred hard currency, with payment milestones tied to delivered race weekends — you pay for rounds as they happen, not for promises. Multi-year terms carry annual step-ups so the first-year figure fits existing authority.
This championship is new. What protects our funds?
Structure, not assurances: payments are staged against delivered deliverables (per race weekend run), the reservation fee is credited against your first season, budgets are transparent and reported quarterly, and the license conditions bind the championship as much as the partner. You are never asked to prepay a season that hasn't been delivered.
When must we commit for the founding season?
National Driver Programmes can begin at any point in a season. Slot reservations and full entries are taken in calendar order — one license per country, and the founding grid is finite. Early partners get the founding-partner terms above; there is no second founding season.
What if priorities change?
Terms are multi-year with annual step-ups and defined exit points. The license reverts to the championship — your flag is never stranded, and no other party can claim it while your agreement stands.
06 · Start
One email begins step one: gtglobalchamp.com/contact. Ask for the National Partner fit memo. The first season's grid is forming now — and one license exists per country.
↓ Download the one-page summary (PDF) — built to forward
Indicative pricing is illustrative and subject to season specification and final agreement; all partnerships subject to championship licensing conditions and applicable law. Figures cited from third-party reporting (YouGov, Nielsen, RDB, published deal coverage) as of August 2026. An aspirational championship in development — only Road Atlanta is confirmed; all other circuits represent the ambition the calendar grows toward.