Maserati has announced it intends to return to racing from 2023!
Sadly not in the GT category as has been whispered for some time, but in Formula E and will be joining Porsche, DS, Nissan and Jaguar, the brands that have chosen to remain faithful to the electric series after 2022. Maserati therefore becomes the first Italian brand to launch the challenge in the electric championship and will participate in season 9 of the championship, which will start in January 2023. The 2023 season will see the introduction on the new 3rd generation single-seaters with power increased from 250 to 350 kW, i.e. 470 horsepower, and a second motor generator in position for a greater energy recovery.
Maserati’s return to racing takes place thirteen years after its last competitive engagement: in 2010 Maserati raced for the last time in the GT world championship with the MC12 which won numerous international titles in the Granturismo category. While we have to go back as far as 63 years ago for the last single-seater engagement: when in 1958 the Maserati 250F, which the year before had won the F1 world title with Juan Manuel Fangio, took part in the last race in F1.
Maserati also had historic victories in 1939 and 1940 when the Maserati 8CTF won the legendary Indianapolis 500 for two consecutive years, giving Maserati an Indy-F1 double that only Lotus and McLaren in racing history have equaled. A success in the Formula E championship would see a hat-trick with single-seaters that is unique in history.
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