By Silvia Schweiger| Posted December 21, 2023 | In Sport Sponsorship, Sports Marketing
By Silvia Schweiger| Posted December 21, 2023 | In Sport Sponsorship, Sports Marketing
In the world of sports marketing, motorsport offers a unique mix of visibility, prestige, and emotional connection. Whether you’re looking to elevate brand awareness, drive consumer engagement, or enter new markets, Motorsport Marketing delivers a platform unlike any other. Far from being “just” a sponsorship opportunity, today’s motorsport partnerships are fully integrated marketing activations—where track performance meets boardroom strategy, and where fans become loyal brand advocates.
Here are 10 strategic reasons why Motorsport Marketing deserves a place in your brand’s growth playbook.
Formula 1, MotoGP, and other premier racing series command massive worldwide audiences. F1 alone reached over 1.55 billion people in 2023 across 207 countries, with an average of 68.2 million viewers per Grand Prix.
Your brand isn’t just visible—it’s visible on a global stage, week after week, in the world’s most dynamic and emotionally charged sport.
Motorsport is inherently aspirational: cutting-edge technology, precision engineering, and elite performance. Associating your brand with this universe creates immediate perceived value.
From the champagne podiums to the paddock suites, every visual and experiential touchpoint reinforces a brand narrative built on excellence, ambition, and passion.
Motorsport fans are more than spectators—they’re communities. These audiences are loyal, tech-oriented, and emotionally invested.
F1’s digital platforms alone recorded over 7 billion video plays in 2023, with a social following exceeding 70.5 million users. That’s real-time engagement at scale.
Motorsport events are business hubs. Hospitality and VIP experiences create direct access to C-level executives, investors, and key decision-makers.
For B2B brands, Motorsport Marketing isn’t just about exposure—it’s a high-level networking and deal-making platform.
Races span from January to December, offering brands a 12-month marketing runway. That’s tens of global events to leverage across:
All built around an elite, constantly moving backdrop.
In crowded verticals, standing out is everything. Motorsport allows brands to break free from traditional ad clutter by aligning with a sport that is elite, emotional, and experiential.
Think Oracle Red Bull Racing, Petronas Mercedes, or Lenovo Ducati—not just logos, but lifestyle associations.
Motorsport partnerships generate extraordinary storytelling potential—from behind-the-scenes access to driver takeovers and pit-lane drama.
This content is tailor-made for today’s marketing mix: short-form video, reels, stories, UGC, and influencer-led campaigns that scale globally.
Modern sponsorships come with powerful measurement tools. Brands can track exposure (via Nielsen or proprietary tools), engagement, sentiment, and conversion metrics—making motorsport sponsorships not just visible, but accountable.
More than eyeballs—impact.
Today’s motorsport is not just about speed. It’s also about sustainability (Formula E, carbon neutral targets), gender inclusion (F1 Academy), and innovation.
For future-facing brands, this creates a platform that mirrors their own values—and speaks to next-generation consumers.
Motorsport builds lasting brand equity. Legendary partnerships—think Ferrari–Shell, McLaren–Mobil 1—have stood the test of time, embedding brand names in the cultural fabric of the sport.
It’s not just about reach. It’s about resonance. And longevity.
Motorsport Marketing is not an expense—it’s an investment in perception, positioning, and performance. Whether you’re a challenger brand looking to make noise, or a market leader seeking global consistency, the racetrack is where visibility meets velocity.
Want to explore how Motorsport Marketing can accelerate your brand? Let’s talk.
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Associate Director, Executive Marketing and Commercial at RTR Sports Marketing, a London-based sports marketing company specializing in motorsport for over 25 years. Without sports, life is boring
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Read MoreIn an era where it is possible to get anywhere with a click, there is a strong temptation to approach teams and properties directly for sponsorship projects.
By doing so, we are convinced that we are shortening the value chain, saving time and money. However, these DYI methods are anything but risk-free and what initially appears to be a competitive advantage soon turns into a problem that is difficult to resolve. That’s why there are agencies. And this is why you should rely on us for your sponsorships.
When first approaching a motorsport sponsorship project, it is difficult to know immediately which stakeholders are correct, what the decision flow is, and what the right timelines are for each process. Motorsport is a very specialized field of action, and fitting effectively into its paths can take a lot of time and therefore money. We, on the other hand, know referents and spheres of action and know who to talk to, when and how. So you are also more effective.
Motorsport is an immense passion, and for our heart colors we would be willing to do anything. But business is a different business, and it is important to make the best possible strategic decisions based on independent research, statistics and reliable data. A motorsport sponsorship agency like RTR has an objective, 360-degree picture of the scenario and can tell you what is really best for you: which racing series, which athlete, which team. This is because we possess a great deal of data and information on ratings, segmentation and attitudes. Because the numbers don’t lie. Never.
Activations are the real heart of motorsport sponsorship. Without them, there remains only a blank sticker on a motorcycle, car or uniform and no contact with the public, no emotional connection, no impact on the bottom line. Then how do you do it? It certainly won’t be the teams or the athletes who will help you leverage sponsorship and enjoy the many marketing rights you have paid for. To bring out the best in a motorsport marketing project, you need an agency that knows how to use sponsorship to engage the fanbase online, to reach out to Shopping Centers, to organize hospitality, to develop B2B and B2C opportunities, and to get “your” athletes in front of millions of potential consumers.
Would you ever go to the dealer who sold you the car and ask if the competitor’s car is better? No, of course. So, how do you expect to get firm measurements of the effectiveness of your sponsorship if you do not rely on someone super partes? At RTR, we have always worked with independent third-party agencies that allow us to know the return on any exposure of your brand on TV and in the media. In addition, we believe in calculating ROI as the ultimate measure of your success-so we can tell you for every penny you spend how much you are making.
We have been involved in motorsport sponsorship and sports marketing for more than 15 years. We are consultants in the sense that our goal is to maximize your investment, but we are also an agency that manages the project from start to finish. We have been doing this since 1995 with passion and professionalism, following three principles that have become cornerstones of our business: independence, verticality and transparency.
I would like to highlight the fact that one of the qualities of RTR is its great ability to approach the sponsorship scenario strategically, together with its passionate attitude, its amazing enthusiasm for solving problems, and its high level of professionalism.
Gianluca Degliesposti
Executive Director Server&Storage EMEA
Eurosport is truly delighted with its business relationship with Riccardo Tafà, who has become extremely popular, thanks to his detailed knowledge of the sports marketing sector and his highly diligent attitude to work.
Francois Ribeiro
Commercial Director
Passion and Expertise are the features that I have found in RTR since the very beginning. Serious and reliable professionals but also very helpful, nice and open-mind people, willing to listen and compare different ideas. All the values in which RTR believes make this agency a partner, not just a supplier, a partner with whom we have had the opportunity to achieve significant commercial results in term of success and image.
Luca Pacitto
Head of Communication
We have been working with RTR Sports Marketing for over 10 years. The objectives and the programmes of collaboration continue to be renewed and to grow with mutual satisfaction. I believe RTR is a team of great professionals led by Riccardo Tafà, who I consider a manager of exceptional skills and with a great passion for his work.
Lucio Cecchinello
Team Principal
I have known and worked with Riccardo Tafà since 1995 when we collaborated for the first time on a project for the Williams Formula 1 team. Several clients followed. After leaving Williams to work for Gerhard Berger then owner of the Toro Rosso F1 Team, I turned again to Riccardo to seek his help in finding a tool supplier for the team and Riccardo duly obliged with an introduction to USAG, a partnership with Toro Rosso which endured for five years. I recently started a new role as Group Commercial Director for the renowned Andretti Autosport organisation and I find myself working with Riccardo once again on a number of interesting projects. Why has this relationship with Riccardo endured ? He’s smart, knows the commercial side of sport inside out and back to front and he’s honest and trustworthy. Riccardo Tafà is a “doer” not a “talker”: in over 20 years I have never had a dispute either with him or with a company that he has introduced and each partnership introduced by Riccardo has delivered quantifiable ROI to rights holder and sponsor alike. I can think of no better testimonial of Riccardo’s diligence, knowledge, contact base and hard work than that.
Jim Wright
Group Commercial Director
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