The Maserati 250F is a Formula 1 car truly deserving of the over-used description ‘iconic’. The epitome of front-engined grand prix machines was used by Juan Manuel Fangio to win his fifth and final world championship in 1957.
Now, well over six decades later, the car will finally have a successor. Maserati has confirmed it will return to single-seater racing – not in F1, but in Formula E.
This came about notwithstanding the fact the Maserati of today is part of the giant Stellantis car manufacturing group which is already represented in the all-electric championship by one of its brands – DS Automobiles. And very successfully too, the squad having scored back-to-back teams’ and drivers’ titles prior to Mercedes’ triumph last year.
It’s not unheard of for one group to run two brands in a single series: Volkswagen did this with Porsche and Audi in Formula E until last year (and in the World Endurance Championship previously). Jean-Marc Finot, the senior vice-president…