In 2014, Super GT and the German touring car series DTM announced the creation of Class One, which would unify GT500's and DTM's technical regulations, allowing manufacturers to race in both series with a single specification of car. However, despite the name change and several attempts at holding a second overseas race, Super GT has continued to only hold one overseas race per year in theory, it could regain its status as a national championship and return to JAF jurisdiction. On December 10, 2004, it was announced that new name of JGTC was confirmed as "Super GT". Initially, JAF announced JGTC would be renamed "Super GT World Challenge" with the goals of "challenge to the world", and "challenge to entertainment" however, FIA prevented JAF from using it due to confusion of the suffix with "World Championship" (a higher level FIA recognition status) and a dispute with Sports Car Club of America, which ran Speed World Challenge since 1990. The series would instead be classified as an "international championship" by the FIA, and would therefore require direct authorization from it, rather than the JAF.
However, holding the series in more than two countries would have meant the JGTC would lose its status as a "national championship" under the International Sporting Code of the FIA, and therefore could not keep "Japanese Championship" in its name. The JGTC had planned to hold a race during the 2005 season at the Shanghai International Circuit in China, in addition to the existing overseas round at Sepang in Malaysia. 2009 Lexus Petronas Team TOM's SC 430 GT500 champion.
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