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Maserati announces motorsport comeback with Formula E entry

The famous Maserati Trident will make a comeback to a single-seater competition for the first time in more than 60 years.

Maserati has announced that they will debut with Gen3, which is Formula E’s lightest, fastest, and most powerful racing car, in Season 9 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

The famous Maserati Trident will make a comeback to a single-seater competition for the first time in more than 60 years. It will go down in history as the first Italian manufacturer to compete in Formula E.

Maserati had a successful Formula One team in the 1950s, and its two-seater MC12 won 14 FIA GT championships between 2004 and 2010.

The iconic Maserati Trident badge debuted in the 1926 Targa Florio, an endurance race in the Sicilian mountains, and won its class, with Alfieri Maserati at the wheel.

Maserati’s goal is to use the pressure cooker of world-class motorsport to boost the performance, innovation, and prestige of its “Folgore” fully-electric vehicle line forward, as track learnings feedback into its road car effort.

Maserati CEO Davide Grasso, said, “We are very proud to be back where we belong as protagonists in the world of racing. We are powered by passion and innovative by nature. We have a long history of world-class excellence in competition and we are ready to drive performance in the future.

“In the race for more performance, luxury, and innovation, Folgore – our electrified line and it is the purest expression of Maserati. That’s why we decided to go back to racing in the FIA Formula E World Championship, meeting our customers in the city centres of the world, taking the Trident forward into the future.”

Jean-Marc Finot, Senior VP of Stellantis Motorsport, commented, “It is a great pleasure for STELLANTIS Motorsport to play a part in getting Maserati back in the race. Beyond this piece of history, Maserati Formula E will be our technological laboratory to accelerate the development of high-efficiency electrified powertrains and intelligent software for our road sports cars.

“Formula E is the perfect championship for this purpose and we are very proud to be the first Italian brand to join the fold.”

Formula E CEO Jamie Reigle said, “We are delighted Maserati will join the Gen3 era of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship and play a defining role reimagining the future of motorsport.

“Formula E races in the heart of the most iconic cities in the world and is followed passionately by a progressive global audience. Our millions of fans will be thrilled to see Maserati line up on the grid as one of the world’s elite electric car brands.”

Formula E Founder and Chairman, Alejandro Agag, said, “We are proud to welcome Maserati to their new home in world-class motorsport. The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is the pinnacle of electric racing. It provides the perfect environment for the most dynamic and innovative high-performance car brands to showcase their technological capabilities alongside their sporting ambitions.”

Maserati, as mentioned, will enter Formula E as the series transitions to the Gen3 car, which is the lightest and fastest vehicle it has produced to date. The Gen3 race car, according to Formula E and the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), will be the most efficient on the planet. They claim that regenerative braking will generate at least 40% of the energy consumed during a race.

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