Your Seat. Your Livery. Real Racing.
The Paddock Society is the owner-driver wing of The GT Global Championship: a private society of gentleman drivers who race on Saturday of every round the Championship hosts, in spec GT4 cars, with the paddock, the grid and the people that come with it. Membership is by application and interview.
The Society races on Saturday. Sunday is the Championship's race — the GT3 teams and the GT4 nations — and no Sunday crew member or Sunday race car runs in The Paddock Society Sprint Race. The Championship is in development, and only Road Atlanta is confirmed.
A Seat, Not A Sticker.
A private, by-application society for business owners, operators and family offices who would rather race than watch. Founder-built and member-led. The seat, the paddock and the network no member could assemble alone.
Corporate sponsors pay tens of millions for a logo on a car someone else drives. The Society is the inversion: your livery, your seat, a real race inside a real race weekend, at a fraction of the price. The grid photography is of you.
Forty-Five Minutes, Saturday Afternoon.
- 14:00 · Saturday
- 45 min · one timed stop
- Spec GT4 · arrive-and-drive
- One or two drivers a car
The Paddock Society Sprint Race runs at 14:00 on Saturday of every round the Championship hosts, for forty-five minutes, in spec GT4 cars run by the Championship's operator and manufacturer partners as they are signed. Arrive and drive, or bring your own GT4. One or two drivers a car, with one timed stop for everyone. The grid is set by each car's best lap in Friday's open running. At the Bathurst guest round, which runs inside an established event, the Sprint Race depends on the host's program.
It is the Society's race, not a championship race: it scores no points toward the Championship and pays no purse, and the No-Touch Standard applies in full. Every contact is judged from the in-car footage, and the driver at fault carries it on their clean-driving record — the record that decides who earns a Sunday crew seat — so the field races clean, and your car and your budget are protected. Where a venue and the Society's local partners want it, the Sprint Race's local activation can include an open-lapping session for members' own cars.
Ride-alongs are Friday's: members and their guests ride in the experience cars all day during the open running, by permission and under the Society's waiver. On Sunday one guest rides in the experience car for the first three laps of the 6-Hour, where the round's permit holder allows. Saturday is for racing: the Sprint Race starts without a passenger seat.
Friday To Sunday.
Friday — Load In, Test and Tune
Coached laps in the spec car during the open test-and-tune day, the driver evaluation, ride-alongs for your guests all day, the open paddock, and the Nations Dinner at 19:00 with every flag on the grid.
Saturday — Practice and Qualifying
The championship grids practice and qualify in the morning. At 14:00, the Sprint Race. Then Stars in Cars — local professional drivers taking local celebrities out for hot laps — the nations events for the fans, and the partner evening.
Sunday — Race Day
The grid walk, the pit wall and the 6-Hour, from inside the paddock — and one guest's ride-along for the first three laps, where the permit holder allows. The path up is the Bronze seat every GT3 crew carries; clean driving in the Sprint Race is how a member earns it.
What Membership Is.
Drive
Real races on real grids. Spec GT4 cars, coached and crewed, on the circuits of a world championship. Not a hospitality pass.
Brand
Your business livery on the car you race, for the weekend. Wrap, decals and design support handled; the photographs are of you in the seat.
Access
The paddock of a championship weekend: the Nations Dinner, the pit wall, the grid walk, and the manufacturer and circuit relationships the Championship builds, as they are signed.
Network
The paddock is the boardroom. Business owners, operators and family offices, in proximity, over three days. Qualified introductions, and hospitality that reads more garage than ballroom.
Annual, By Application And Interview.
Membership is annual, paid, and by application and interview. It covers the Society's year: the Sprint Race seat program at every round the Championship hosts, the paddock and the pit wall, the Nations Dinner, Friday's ride-alongs for your guests, and the network. Seats, coaching and your livery are contracted per round on top of membership.
The Society is for Bronze and Silver drivers and club license holders who want to race inside a real race weekend. Every member passes the same gate: a racing license, a medical, Friday's evaluation and the coach's sign-off before a race seat. Founding members join in the first season on terms set in the interview. No price is published.
What Every Member Signs Up To.
- License — Bronze or Silver FIA categorization, or a club racing license; the Championship supports FIA Bronze categorization for new entrants.
- Medical — a current racing medical.
- Evaluation — Friday's coached running and the coach's sign-off before any race seat.
- Cars — spec GT4 cars from the Championship's operator partners as they are signed, or your own GT4-homologated car (expired homologation up to six years accepted).
- Conduct — the No-Touch Standard and the Society's code of conduct.
- Terms — seats are contracted per round. The Sprint Race scores no championship points and pays no purse.
FAQ
What is The Paddock Society?
The owner-driver wing of The GT Global Championship: a private society of gentleman drivers who race The Paddock Society Sprint Race on Saturday of every round the Championship hosts, in spec GT4 cars. By application and interview.
Do I need my own race car?
No. The Sprint Race is arrive-and-drive in spec GT4 cars run by the Championship's operator partners as they are signed. If you own a GT4-homologated car, you may race it.
Is the Sprint Race part of the Championship?
No. It is the Society's race, on Saturday. Sunday's 6-Hour is the Championship's race for the GT3 teams and the GT4 nations, and no Sunday crew member or Sunday race car runs in the Sprint Race.
What license do I need?
A Bronze or Silver FIA categorization or a club racing license, plus a current medical. Every member passes Friday's evaluation and the coach's sign-off before a race seat.
Can I bring a guest?
Yes. Members host guests in the paddock and at the Nations Dinner, guests ride along in the experience cars all day Friday by permission, and on Sunday one guest rides for the first three laps of the 6-Hour where the round's permit holder allows. The Sprint Race starts without a passenger seat.
What does membership cost?
Membership is annual and paid; terms are set in the interview, and no price is published. Seats, coaching and livery are contracted per round.
How do I apply?
Through the grid request on this site: choose GT4, then The Paddock Society, and tell us which license you hold. Every request is read by the founder; where there is a fit, the next step is an interview.