World Cup Of Motorsport™
The vision line of The GT Global Championship, and a trademark of the championship. This page is the public record of that claim: what we claim, why the claim stands, and how to use the words.
World Cup of Motorsport™
The words, in any styling. Always capitalised as shown, and always singular — Motorsport, never Motorsports.
A Motor Racing Championship
Organising and staging motor racing events and championships, their broadcast and streaming, and the merchandise and hospitality that go with them. Motor racing only.
Claimed. Not Yet Registered.
Claimed in the United States, and in public use on this site since August 2026. ™ marks a claim and ® marks a registration. We use the one that is true today.
Owner: The GT Global Championship. The championship's marks are assigned to its operating company at formation, and that company files the federal application. Until then the claim rests on adoption, continuous use and public notice — which is what this page is.
Why It Stands.
Can anyone own the words “World Cup”?
FIFA owns WORLD CUP for football, and nothing on this site says otherwise. It does not own the words for every sport. The United States register carries more than 100 live marks and applications containing WORLD CUP in Class 41, the class that covers sporting events, held by more than 60 different owners. Fewer than one in five are FIFA's. The National Hockey League owns WORLD CUP OF HOCKEY (Reg. No. 2,900,202). The International Golf Association owns WORLD CUP OF GOLF (Reg. No. 3,544,173). RUGBY WORLD CUP, FIBA BASKETBALL WORLD CUP, FIS WORLD CUP and BASEBALL WORLD CUP are each registered to their own sport's body. “World Cup of a sport” is an established family of marks, each confined to its sport. Ours is confined to motor racing.
Didn't A1 Grand Prix already use this name?
It did, and that history is why the claim is open in the United States. A1GP raced from 2005 to 2009 as “the World Cup of Motorsport”. The phrase was registered in the United States in that era: WORLD CUP OF MOTOR SPORT, Reg. No. 3,340,916, registered 20 November 2007. The series stopped racing in 2009, and the registration was cancelled on 27 June 2014 under Section 8 of the Trademark Act, because no declaration of continued use was filed. In 2022 a revival application for A1 GP WORLD CUP OF MOTORSPORT (Serial No. 97/463,865) was approved and published, then abandoned on 29 July 2024 because no statement of use was ever filed. Under United States law a mark unused for three consecutive years is presumed abandoned (15 U.S.C. § 1127). As of 18 September 2026 the USPTO's public search shows no live registration or application for the phrase. This page describes the position in the United States, where the claim is made. Registrations from a 2022 A1GP revival effort remain on the UK and EU registers.
Isn't the phrase too descriptive to be a trademark?
The register has already answered that. The 2007 registration sat on the Principal Register, the register for marks that function as trademarks, with only the words MOTOR SPORT disclaimed. The 2022 application was approved with only GP and MOTORSPORT disclaimed. Both times the words “World Cup of” were left standing. We expect the same disclaimer and have no objection to it: nobody should own the word motorsport.
Is it registered?
Not yet, and we say so. ™ is the symbol for a claimed trademark. ® is reserved for registered ones, and we will not use it until it is true. The championship's operating company is in formation; the marks are assigned to it at formation, and it files the federal application. The law provides an intent-to-use route for exactly this situation — a mark adopted before the first event is staged — and the 2007 registration began the same way.
What does the claim rest on until then?
Adoption, notice and consistency. The championship adopted the line as its stated vision in August 2026 and has used it continuously since: in its page titles, its structured data, its investor materials and its films. The notice runs in the footer across this site. The usage rules below are enforced on our own pages first. And this page exists so that the claim is public, dated and specific rather than implied.
What entitles a new championship to the name?
The format, not the size. A World Cup is the stage where nations meet, and that is what this championship is built as: GT4 is the nations class, where an entry represents a country; the Nations Trophy is contested from the first season; an anthem plays on every podium. The line is a vision and a promise about format. It is not a description of something that already exists — the championship is in development, and only Road Atlanta is confirmed.
Is this connected to FIFA or A1GP?
No. The GT Global Championship is independent. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by FIFA, the former A1 Grand Prix series or any effort to revive it, or the organisers of any other event named on this site. Where we write about the FIFA World Cup — in our study of the 2026 tournament, for instance — we are writing about it, not trading on it. The FIA GT World Cup is a separate event run by others: a single annual GT3 race on the streets of Macau. We do not use that name.
Can I use the phrase?
To talk about us, yes. That is what it is for. Press, fans, drivers, teams and partners may use World Cup of Motorsport™ to refer to The GT Global Championship without asking. Using it to name or promote anything else — an event, a series, a product, merchandise, a channel — needs written permission: [email protected].
How To Write It
World Cup of Motorsport™
Capitals as shown. The ™ on the first use on a page and wherever the words stand alone as a title. Not repeated after that.
A Name, Not A Noun
“The GT Global Championship — the World Cup of Motorsport™.” Never as a common noun: not “a world cup of motorsport”, not “motorsport's world cups”.
No Variants
Not “World Cup of Motorsports”. Not “Motorsport World Cup”. Not “GT World Cup”, which is someone else's event. No translations or abbreviations without asking.
The record. USPTO Trademark Search (tmsearch.uspto.gov), searched 18 September 2026: Reg. Nos. 3,340,916 · 2,900,202 · 3,544,173 · 5,139,623 · 4,402,165 · 7,389,921 · 4,970,808; Serial No. 97/463,865. TMview (tmdn.org), searched 19 September 2026: UK00003746603 · EUTM 018717224. Abandonment: 15 U.S.C. § 1127. This page states the championship's position in the United States. It is not legal advice, and it is reviewed whenever the status changes. Last reviewed 19 September 2026.