Maserati Returns to Racing!
The First Italian Brand to compete in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship from 2023

Published on 13 Feb 2022

Maserati recently announced the first step in its motorsport strategy and will make its debut in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in 2023. With motorsport in its genes and rooted in the spirit of pure competition, Maserati is the first Italian brand to compete in Formula E. The return to the track renews the racing spirit in Maserati’s DNA.
The combination of Maserati’s unrivalled racing heritage - a brand intrinsically linked with high-performance, and its innovative attitude towards electrification – aligns perfectly with the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the world’s first all-electric road-racing motorsport series.
Maserati’s commitment to electric mobility is powered by a
lightning surge of new energy, now accelerating to run at top speed with
Folgore, the full electric range. All new Maserati models will also be
available in 100% electric solutions including Maserati Grecale, Maserati
GranTurismo and GranCabrio and the Maserati MC20
super sportscar.
The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship provides
Maserati with a perfect platform to showcase the unprecedented brand racing
heritage and Folgore in an environment where high performance and innovation
powerfully co-exist.
Maserati will debut on the grid from Season 9 with the new
Gen3, the fastest, lightest, most powerful Formula E racing car ever. The Gen3
is the world’s most efficient racing car featuring a series of industry-leading
design, production and technological innovations.
Since inception, Formula E’s dramatic racing on the streets
of the world’s most iconic cities including New York, Monaco, Berlin, Mexico
City, London and Rome has led to electric cars exported around the world today
going further on every charge through increases in energy efficiency,
enhancements in battery range and advances in powertrain development.

Davide Grasso, Maserati CEO, commented: “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.” Grasso continued: “In the race for more performance, luxury, and innovation, Folgore is irresistible 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 centers of the world, taking the Trident forward into the future”.
Jean-Marc Finot, Senior VP, STELLANTIS
Motorsport, added: “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 in.”
Alejandro Agag, Founder & Chairman, Formula
E,
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.”
Jamie Reigle, CEO, Formula E, 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 around the world will be thrilled to see Maserati line up on the grid as
one of the world’s elite electric car brands.”
Mohammed Ben Sulayem, FIA President: “I am
delighted to welcome Maserati to Formula E for Season 9. For such an iconic
manufacturer with a tremendously proud and successful heritage in motor sport
to pledge its commitment to the series is testament to the overwhelming faith
in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship’s future as we prepare to usher in
the next era. The new Gen3 single-seater will represent the pinnacle of
sustainability, technology and performance.”
Maserati was born on the track from audacity, first of the Maserati brothers, then of its drivers. Its racing debut was 96 years ago. The first racing car to bear the Trident logo on the bonnet was the Tipo 26, which debuted at the Targa Florio in 1926, winning first place in the class up to 1.5 L, with Alfieri Maserati at the wheel.
Thirty-one years later, Juan Manuel Fangio won the F1 World
Championship with Maserati in 1957.
The last time Maserati was seen in a single seater was with Maria Teresa De Filippis, the first woman to qualify for a Formula 1 Grand Prix, on board of a 250F. This was it's very last appearance in racing