Maserati MSG Racing Team Ready to Debut in Mexico at the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship: The Trident's Return to the Track is 100% Electric

Modena, Italy – January 13, 2023 – The first Italian luxury automotive brand to line up on the starting grid for the ninth season of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is revving up its – all electric – engines, focused on sustainability, innovation, and performance.  

In partnership with reigning vice-world champions, MSG Racing, Maserati will race beyond in the first all-electric world championship, pioneering cutting-edge track to road technological development, showcasing the greatest automotive manufacturers and emerging talent in international motorsport.

To celebrate the electric age, and the major milestone of this year’s first E-Prix in Mexico at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Maserati are combining the brand's past, present and future. The powerful Maserati GranTurismo Folgore, the first electric Maserati in history with a livery paying tribute to Maserati victories and homage to the Trident drivers who have topped the podium, lines up next to the electrifying Maserati Tipo Folgore, ready to pick up the racing baton and write the next chapter in the Trident’s racing history. 

Maserati’s winning DNA and determination have been characteristic of the Modena brand since its first victory in 1926. Now Formula E offers a uniquely competitive and compelling platform to transfer electric innovation from track to road as the Trident returns to racing.  

The Maserati MSG Racing team drivers Edoardo Mortara and Maximilian Günther were first announced in November – then In Modena’s Piazza Grande in December, the livery of the Gen3 race car was unveiled to fans eagerly awaiting Maserati’s return to racing highlighting the brands motorsport heritage and its desire to bring Maserati back into the motorsport spotlight. 

Maserati S.p.A.
Maserati produces a complete range of unique cars, immediately recognizable for their extraordinary personality. Thanks to their style, technology, and innately exclusive character, they delight the most discerning, demanding tastes and have always been a benchmark for the global automotive industry. A tradition of successful cars, each of them redefining what makes an Italian sports car in terms of design, performance, comfort, elegance, and safety, currently available in more than seventy markets internationally. The ambassadors of this heritage are the Quattroporte flagship, the Ghibli sports sedan, the Levante – the first SUV made by Maserati, and the Grecale, the all-new “everyday exceptional” SUV, all models characterized using the highest quality materials and excellent technical solutions. Ghibli, Grecale and Levante are also available in hybrid versions. A complete range, equipped with 4-cylinder hybrid powertrains, V6 petrol and V8 petrol, with rear-wheel and four-wheel drive, embodying the performance DNA of the Trident Brand. The top of the range is made up of the MC20 super sports car and the MC20 Cielo spyder, powered by the ground-breaking Nettuno V6 engine, incorporating F1-derived technologies available in the power unit of a standard production car for the first time. The sporty New GranTurismo models – available with both high-performance petrol engines and a 100% battery electric powertrain – take the House of the Trident forward into the future: the first car in the electric range, the Maserati Folgore. By 2025, all Maserati models will come in a full-electric version, and the entire Maserati range will run on electricity alone by 2030.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

MASERATI
Maria Conti – Chief Communication Officer Maserati – maria.conti@maserati.com 
Sarah Dryhurst – Maserati Corse Communications Manager – sarah.dryhurst@maserati.com
Matt Rindone – Maserati Americas PR & Communications – matthew.rindone@stellantis.com

Maserati MSG Racing
Maserati MSG Racing is one of the founding teams of the FIA ABB Formula E World Championship and in December 2013, became the first manufacturer to join motorsport’s premier fully-electric category. As one of only a handful of constant participants since the series’ inaugural 2014/15 season, MSG Racing has moved from strength to strength and in 2021 tasted vice World Championship success with Edoardo Mortara before completing their most successful season to date in 2022 finishing the season as the teams vice World Champions. Led by Chairman & Managing Partner - Scott Swid –  and Team Principal - James Rossiter - the Monegasque marque is Formula E’s most gender-diverse team and is at the forefront of sustainability, EDI, technical innovation and excellence. For further information please visit our website. For media hub access and rights free content, please register here.

Maserati MSG Racing Media Contact:
Liz Brooks - Director of Strategic Communications – lbrooks@monacosports.com