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This is the framework the Society is building toward — the shape a Society season takes once the racing comes. FARA USA-sanctioned anchor rounds would form the spine. One to two founder-sourced rounds, drawn from the cohort's networks, would round out the year. The trophy isn't the championship. The trophy is the calendar. This page is the framework that builds it.

The Framework

The TPS GT Cup is the dream the Society builds toward — and the design is that it would be rebuilt new every year, no two Society seasons the same. "New every year" wouldn't mean improvised. Each year's calendar is built on a deliberate two-layer architecture.

Layer One — The Anchor Rounds

FARA USA-sanctioned race weekends would form the spine of the season — FARA USA is the Society's confirmed sanctioning partner for the racing when it comes. The anchors are the known, manageable, predictable part of the design: events members could plan a year around, prep cars against, and route a racing calendar through. They are the part of the season that wouldn't change.

Layer Two — The Founder-Sourced Rounds

One to two additional rounds each year would be sourced through the founding cohort's relationships — track partnerships, circuit access, manufacturer days, the international weekends no single member could land alone. These are the rounds where the Society would deliver on its bespoke promise: experiences members couldn't assemble on their own, and the part of the calendar that genuinely never repeats. Founder-sourced rounds would confirm year-by-year, deliberately, by the cohort.

The Anchor Rounds — The Framework Being Built Toward

This is the shape the anchor calendar is built toward, not a published schedule. Road Atlanta is the confirmed home and the first stop when the series comes; the rest is the framework the cohort would build, sanctioned by FARA USA when the racing arrives.

The Founder-Sourced Rounds — In Development

One to two slots on each year's calendar would be reserved for events the founding cohort builds together. These could take any of several forms:

• An international weekend — a circuit abroad where the Society sources cars through partner operators (livery applied, format unchanged)
• A manufacturer day — access to a marque's factory facility, test driver, or development car not available through any public channel
• A bespoke track experience — a private circuit, a sunrise-to-sunset takeover, or a closed-door weekend that no public schedule includes
• A regional founder-network event — sourced through a founder's local relationships at a track outside the FARA USA footprint

The exact composition is the work of the founding class. Discord conversations, monthly calls, and the cohort's collective Rolodex shape what the calendar becomes. Founders aren't observers of the calendar. They are how it gets built.

The Year Between Rounds

Cup race weekends are the apex of the year. The Society is what fills the other eleven months:

• Monthly members-only track days at Road Atlanta with The Driving Club, the Society's operating home
• Manufacturer days — access events with Porsche, BMW, and the marques the founding cohort prioritizes
• The international trip — one curated travel weekend per year to circuits members couldn't access alone (Spa, Le Mans, Silverstone, Magarigawa — chosen by the cohort)
• The founder retreat — bespoke at a destination track, partners welcome — the cohort plans the next year's calendar together
• The legends dinner — a small-group dinner with motorsport veterans, factory drivers, and operators, hosted at the international round
• Bespoke member experiences — the cohort surfaces what they want; Society operations builds them in

What You Need To Participate

The Cup is an exhibition format, but the Society runs it to professional safety and operations standards. Society operations handles logistics; members supply the driver, the car, and the credentials.

Driver Credentials

• Race license — a current FARA, SCCA, NASA, or FIA competition license. The Society's operations partner can guide first-time entrants through the FARA license application process.
• Minimum age 16 with a valid driver's license.
• Prior track experience — documented competition experience or HPDE history. First-time race entrants typically complete a Super Lap Series weekend or two before stepping onto the GT race grid.

Driver Safety Equipment

• Helmet — Snell SA-rated, 2015 or newer (one Snell generation back, maximum)
• HANS device or equivalent FIA/SFI-rated head and neck restraint
• Fire suit — minimum 3-layer Nomex with SFI-rated gloves and Nomex shoes
• Racing harness — current dated, paired with a non-OEM race seat; window net on the driver's side

The Car — GT Race Spec

• Full roll cage — FARA tech inspection verifies tubing OD, wall thickness, padding, and construction
• Fire extinguisher or onboard fire suppression system (type documented during tech)
• Master kill switch — external and internal, both clearly marked
• Racing fuel permitted (no nitrous); fuel cell or race-prepped tank and lines
• Overflow containment — engine, transmission, differential
• Dyno sheet — cars are classed by power-to-weight; dyno certification must be presented and disclosed at tech

HPDE-prepped street cars are not eligible for the GT race grid; the car must be built to FARA's full race spec. The Society maintains a relationship list of preferred build shops for members entering the Cup for the first time, and the founding cohort's collective experience compresses the prep curve for first-time race entrants substantially.

What The Society Handles

Members supply the driver and the car. The Society handles everything around them:

• FARA license, entry submissions, and weekend paperwork
• Race-weekend logistics — transport coordination, paddock assignment, hospitality, garage space
• Tech inspection support — on-site liaison with FARA scrutineers, documentation management
• Livery design and application — the member's business livery applied per round, replacement panels handled in-season
• Pre-race media production — livery photography, in-car telemetry, member-distributed video
• For founder-sourced rounds abroad: Society-sourced cars through partner operators at circuits members can't reasonably ship a car to, with livery applied to the Society-sourced car

The $95K Open Book

Most private institutions at this price point keep their economics behind glass. We don't. The founding rate isn't where The Paddock Society makes money — it's where the institution gets built. What follows is the actual breakdown of where your founding membership goes, what's covered, and what you provide separately.

Founding members aren't customers. They're co-builders of a multi-decade institution.

Where Your $95,000 Goes

What's Included · What You Provide

The Path The Society Builds Toward

2026 is the founding year — the class is being seated now, the framework built. When the racing comes, the anchors take shape and the first founder-sourced rounds land. Beyond that is where the global frame the Society is built around becomes the calendar's center of gravity: more international rounds, expanded manufacturer access, founder networks built deeper, the cohort's collective Rolodex getting richer year over year.

The direction is set, even if the timeline is measured in the decades a thing like this takes. What would stay consistent is that every year is rebuilt, never repeated. Members who race a full calendar in a given year would hold something only that year's cohort holds.