How a round of The GT Global Championship actually runs: the open Friday, the exhibition Saturday, the 6-Hour on Sunday — the weekend we own, hour-by-hour, the No-Touch Standard that governs it, and who gets the first call at every venue on the 2027 calendar.
Three words guide every decision in this pack, and every decision the people running a round will make on the day. They are the three nouns of the sentence the company is anchored to: “There is no greater power than the love you're willing to share.”
= the founder's instruction to every person who works here · the full statement and the decision test: gtglobalchamp.com/values
Each round, the Championship hires the entire circuit exclusively — three full running days, Friday through Sunday — gates closed, our schedule, our show. The series contracts the venue and appoints the full event-services stack: corner-marshal stations, dual ALS medical units, fire & rescue, recovery, refueling fire coverage, race control, sanction and insurance. We bring everything else — the field, scrutineering standards, timing, media crew, branding, trophies, and the hospitality layer that is the product.
Nothing on the property is shared. The paddock, the pit lane, the podium and every minute of track time belong to the Championship — the single exception is the Bathurst guest round, run inside an established event because Mount Panorama is public road and cannot be privately hired. Teams load in Thursday evening or early Friday, at the team's choice — the venue manages gate access; series operations open Friday morning.
A single six-hour endurance race, green flag 10:00 local. Every entry is a crew of two or three drivers sharing one car — both grids, GT3 and GT4, on track together, scored by class. Rolling start behind one double-file parade lap; in-race refueling and driver changes; the checkered flag taken under the car's own power. A 10:00 American green flag is 15:00 in London and 16:00 in Paris — a genuinely global broadcast window, with the evening free for the podium.
Friday, the track opens for constant GT3 and GT4 running — a full test-and-tune day layered with real media and fan access to the drivers and teams while the cars run. Saturday morning is practice and qualifying; Saturday afternoon is the fans' day: a GT3 sprint and a GT4 sprint — both non-championship, each with a VIP ride-along seat in the experience car for the start — an exhibition race programmed with partners (a partner one-make, a celebrity race, or an invited series), the biggest HPDE on the calendar (bring your own car), and the nations events for the fans. Saturday is built to be fun, all activity and access; Sunday is the big show.
= the entire circuit, Friday through Sunday · every session ours to schedule · paddock, pit lane and podium exclusively ours
The schedule is ours to set — exclusive occupation means session times flex per venue (daylight, noise curfews, freight windows) and are published in the round's Supplemental Regulations bulletin at T−2 weeks. The season finale trades the 10:00 green flag for a run into the night — the one round that ends under the lights. The Bathurst guest round runs to the host event's published grid — the one weekend of nine we don't control.
Series-wide, adopted from the proven supplemental-regulations template on file. Published to entrants with each round's supps.
Every race begins with one double-file parade lap. Positions held; passing prohibited until the green flag.
The first lap of the weekend's first session is a controlled parade and track-familiarization lap behind a lead vehicle.
Every practice session begins under full-course yellow. The course goes green only when Race Control displays it.
Car and qualifying driver present at the designated grid by the announced time, or the car starts from the rear. Exceptions only for verified mechanical or safety issues, at the Race Director's sole discretion.
An approved camera operates in every race. The complete-footage SD card is submitted after each race — no deleting, editing or withholding. Footage feeds incident review, safety review, rules enforcement, broadcast and social.
The round's flag code is the sanctioning partner's, adopted by reference and briefed on Friday. One deviation, and it is ours: the black flag and any call-in are used for safety, mechanical and eligibility matters only — never as a penalty. Penalties are championship points, published with the ruling. A car called in for a safety inspection is released without a time cost once cleared. Drivers' briefing line: if you see a black flag, something is wrong with your car, not with your driving.
The Race Director has final authority on interpretation and enforcement, subject to protest and appeal rights under the General Competition Rules. Officials may change procedures for weather, track conditions, safety, schedule or circuit instruction.
Drivers' meetings, team meetings, official bulletins, radio, grid instructions and direct official instruction. Failure to follow any official instruction is a points penalty.
This is a no-touch series. If you want to touch, you do so strategically — or at your own peril. Contact is not banned; it is priced. Every incident is judged from mandatory in-car footage and measured by the timing data, and the bill lands on the championship scoreboard — because the best show on earth is the best racing on earth, clean, at the highest standard of on-track behavior.
There are no drive-throughs, no stop-holds and no time penalties anywhere in this championship. Everything — contact and operational fouls alike — is priced in championship points, published with the ruling. The race result on the road is never altered by a penalty; the scoreboard is where the bill is paid. Black flags and Race Control calling a car in for a safety or mechanical issue — fluids, bodywork, lights, a transponder, an inspection — stay exactly as standard; those are safety calls, not punishments.
| Contact | Championship points |
|---|---|
| Incidental — no-consequence brush, no fault | 0 — logged |
| Minor — you hit someone; their race is unaffected | −1 |
| Advantage — contact in a fight; they lose ground, you don't. The deduction scales with what the clock says they actually lost — recover in two corners and it's −2; cost them their stint and it's −6 | −2 to −6 |
| Race-altering — their race is ruined, or a move with no overlap | −10 — points only; the victim is classified at their position at contact |
| Egregious — deliberate contact, retaliation | −25 + disqualification |
Hit someone, self-report to Race Control, and give the place back within a couple of corners — and no points are assessed at all. The rules never order restitution; they price one path and celebrate the other. Those moments make the broadcast: this is what the highest form of racing looks like.
Contact points don't vanish. Your deduction is credited to the driver you hit — damages, paid on the scoreboard. And when a race is ruined outright, the victim scores the position they were running at the moment of contact, verified by the data. In this championship, hitting someone doesn't just cost you; it pays them.
The round score is finish points minus contact points — so P1 in the race is not automatically P1 in the round. Trophy and purse follow the finishing order; the championship follows the net score. Standings publish all three columns, and a public Clean Racing Index ranks every team's conduct all season — cleanest at the top, by name.
Every ruling publishes with its footage and its number. Panel: the Race Director plus a contracted driving-standards professional. Values calibrate live across the first season of events and freeze for the championship. Full rubric — harm measurement, modifiers, repeat-offense escalation, season thresholds — in the sporting regulations (internal draft v0.2, available in diligence).
| Role | Who |
|---|---|
| Series Director | Peter — circuit relationships, partners, investors |
| Race Director | Contracted per event — final on-track authority |
| Series Coordinator | 1 FTE — entries, registration, paddock, circuit liaison |
| Chief Scrutineer | Contracted per event — safety tech + eligibility |
| Timing & Scoring | 1 contractor — transponder overlay, drive-time tracking, No-Touch harm measurement |
| Media crew | 2–3 — photo, video, social |
| Hospitality Lead | 1 — the destination-experience layer |
| Driver Coach / Steward | 1 contracted pro — briefings, incident review, standards |
Nine rounds, seven countries, Feb→Dec. R1 always Road Atlanta; finale in America. Eight weekends are exclusive circuit hires — the counterparty is the circuit itself; Bathurst runs as the guest round inside an established event. Local racing organizations remain the staffing pool for marshals, officials and event services at the US and Canadian rounds.
Only Fuji publishes an exclusive-hire rate card; every other circuit quotes on enquiry — the formal RFP at T−9 months is the standing action for every round. The full per-venue rate research, rental-office contacts and services-stack sourcing is maintained internally and available in diligence.
| Area | Rule (v0.2 draft) |
|---|---|
| Two grids, one ladder | GT3 — the Apex: FIA GT3 homologation (expired ≤ 6 yrs accepted), teams by invitation · GT4 — the Nations Grid: SRO GT4 homologation, one licensed entry per country · GT4 — the Ladder: SRO GT4 homologation, open by application, Saturday sprint |
| The race | One 6-hour race per round, both grids together, scored by class · crews of 2–3 drivers per car with minimum and maximum drive time · in-race refueling standard |
| Balance of Performance | IMSA-standard posture: homologation-gated eligibility, published public BoP tables, torque-sensor telemetry on GT3, no mid-weekend changes, conduct clause (no public BoP lobbying) |
| Safety | Full current FIA spec — 8859/8860 helmet, 8858 FHR, 8856-2018 suit, in-date seat, harness, fire system, fuel cell |
| Drivers | FIA categorization governs lineups. GT3: every crew carries at least one Bronze-rated driver and at most one Gold or Platinum; a crew of three carries a second Bronze or a Silver; the Bronze qualifies the car and drives at least 1h45; every driver who meets their minimum scores. Nations Grid: a driver qualifies by passport, or through a parent or grandparent born in the country; one named guest a crew; a flag scores only when one of its own is in the car. Ladder: Bronze and Silver drivers and club license holders · nationally recognized racing license per round's jurisdiction |
| Noise | Homologation-level requirement: meet the strictest venue limit entered (Spa 103 dB drive-by) — silenced-exhaust kit mandatory for EU rounds |
| Points | The 6-Hour scores 35-27-22-18-15-12-9-6-4-2, then 1 point to every classified finisher · round score = finish points − contact points · no pole or fastest-lap points — you score by finishing well and racing clean · the best 7 of 9 round scores count; a dropped round is dropped whole, contact points included, and the standings publish both totals |
| Titles | GT Global Champion (GT3 drivers') · GT3 Teams' Championship · The Nations Trophy — the GT4 table, where one entry is one nation · the Clean Racing Index publishes alongside all three |
| Conduct | Contact governed exclusively by the No-Touch Standard (§4), footage-first — SD submission after every race · non-contact infractions priced in championship points on a published escalating ladder — there are no drive-throughs, stop-holds or time penalties anywhere in the championship · Race Director final |
The full Technical & Sporting Regulations (draft v0.2, internal) carry the complete rubric, lineup rules, and the open decisions — drive-time calibration and tire supply — available in diligence.