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Does a brand need your racing media kit or a sponsorship proposal?

Choose the right document for the conversation: a media kit establishes your audience and work; a proposal defines a particular partnership.

Nick LambertFounder, Turn One

3 min read

A brand asks for more information. Sending a full season proposal may be premature; sending only a racing biography may leave its marketing team unable to evaluate you.

A media kit gives a concise, reusable view of who you are, who you reach and the work you can produce. A sponsorship proposal applies relevant evidence to a particular buyer, with an objective, deliverables and commercial terms. Choose the document based on the decision the recipient needs to make.

Use the media kit to establish fit

Include your racing context, a clear description of your content, dated audience information, representative work and a contact route. Select evidence that a marketing buyer can interpret. A trophy photograph may establish sporting context, but it does not show the audience or the content a brand could buy.

Keep channel totals separate and date them. If audience location or demographic data is available from your account analytics, show the source and period. Avoid implying that combined followers are a count of different people across platforms.

Give each claim its evidence

A media kit can stay concise while making its figures understandable. Use this check beside each result you choose to include:

What you showContext to include
Audience sizePlatform, follower or subscriber count and capture date; separate totals by channel
Content performancePost link, the platform’s exact metric name and the period measured
Audience locationThe available platform breakdown, its reporting period and any missing information
Campaign exampleThe work delivered, your role, the relevant dates and the evidence you have permission to share

Illustrative wording: “Instagram Reel: [reported views], measured [number] days after publication; post and analytics capture linked.” Replace the brackets with your actual evidence. Calling the same figure “customers reached” would make a claim the view count does not establish.

Before choosing which figures to feature, check your audience against the buyer’s market. A relevant example gives a buyer more to evaluate than an unexplained total.

Use the proposal to define the specific purchase

Once the buyer's objective is clearer, show how the proposed activity addresses it. Name the content, distribution, timing and requested usage. Explain responsibilities and price. The proposal should make a decision possible rather than repeat every page of the media kit.

Illustrative distinction: a media kit shows examples of a driver explaining car preparation. A proposal to a relevant product company describes one particular demonstration, the files and posts included, the review process and the commercial terms. It does not assume that every brand wants the same package.

Choose the next document from the question

Buyer questionUseful response
Who are you and who follows you?Concise media kit with current evidence
What could we do together?A relevant concept and questions about the objective
What exactly would we receive?A scoped proposal
What did the activity deliver?A delivery and performance report

Keep the evidence current without rebuilding everything

Separate the reusable story from figures that change. Review audience counts, current racing programme and featured work before sending. Mark results with their period and explain your role in any collaboration. Do not keep an outdated championship entry or a historic follower total looking current because it fits the layout.

For the commercial document itself, read the sponsorship proposal guide. Use the deliverables checklist to make the purchase concrete. Explore Turn One's commercial work if you want that preparation connected to the conversations that follow.

Related questions

A few useful answers.

Can one document do both jobs?

It can combine audience evidence and a tailored offer, but keep the recipient’s current decision clear. A general media kit should not pretend to be a tailored proposal.

Should a media kit include prices?

Include them only when a clearly defined offer makes them meaningful. Bespoke content, usage and appearances need sufficient scope for a useful quote.

Put it into practice

Build a clearer commercial offer.

Explore how we shape deliverables, audience and usage into a proposal.

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