Maserati is ready to return to sports activities automotive racing this 12 months with a brand new GT2-spec race automotive primarily based on its MC20 supercar.

The brand new race automotive is formally the Maserati GT2, and it made its debut on Friday on the sidelines of the 24 Hours of Spa, the spotlight of the SRO-sanctioned GT World Problem Europe.

Whereas that collection is open to GT3-spec automobiles, the Maserati is ready to contest SRO’s GT2 European Collection. The collection is open to buyer groups and contains race automobiles primarily based on the Audi R8, KTM X-Bow, Mercedes-Benz AMG, Porsche 911, and extra.

Maserati’s GT2 will begin racing within the tail-end of 2023 and take part within the full 2024 season, the automaker stated.

2023 Maserati GT2 race automotive

The GT2 is intently linked to the MC20 street automotive. It runs the identical turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 (output is dependant on Stability of Efficiency), although the race automotive adopts a a lot wilder aerodynamic design with bigger facet intakes and an adjustable rear wing hooked up by way of swan-neck struts. There’s additionally the noticeable entrance splitter and rear diffuser, and in line with Maserati’s there’s additionally a completely flat ground that helps enhance air move.

The race automotive’s complete physique shell can be constituted of light-weight composite supplies. The physique panels characteristic a quick-release design to make sure new parts could be swapped in shortly, Maserati stated. The fenders are additionally a brand new design to accommodate a wider monitor. They characteristic louvers up entrance and the aforementioned bigger facet intakes on the rear, the latter geared toward radiators.

Different areas particular to the race automotive embrace the suspension parts (adjustable dampers and adjustable anti-roll bars), 6-speed sequential transmission, quick-release steering wheel, and 6.5-inch driver data show. The ABS system can be particular and could be calibrated by the motive force from behind the wheel.

2023 Maserati GT2 race automotive

The GT2 has some huge footwear to fill. Some readers will recall the MC20’s predecessor, the Ferrari Enzo-based MC12, competed within the FIA GT Collection throughout the 2000s and was profitable in at least three 24 Hours of Spa races (2005, 2006, and 2008).

Maserati’s return to motorsports kicked off this 12 months with a factory-backed workforce competing within the Components E World Championship. The automaker can be engaged on an MC20 monitor automotive that is primarily based on the MC20 and will probably be a precursor for a race automotive designed for the GT courses of the IMSA SportsCar Championship or FIA World Endurance Championship.

“Our DNA and our spirit have all the time lain in racing,” David Grasso, Maserati’s CEO, stated in a press release. “Now greater than ever we need to rekindle and nourish that aggressive ardour that has all the time characterised and motivated us to realize main milestones.”