{"id":9685,"date":"2022-01-14T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=9685"},"modified":"2022-01-14T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:42:12","slug":"formula-e-maserati-set-to-join-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2022\/01\/14\/formula-e-maserati-set-to-join-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E: Maserati Set to Join in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Italian luxury brand Maserati to join motorsport as Formula E embarks on a new era in 2023 with the Gen3 design.<\/h2>\n<p>Season 8 of Formula E is approaching, with excitement building, in addition, Maserati have announced huge news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/news\/2022\/january\/maserati-joins-formula-e-gen3\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maserati will join Formula E<\/a> next season. The move comes as welcome news for the series which will see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/32043332\/mercedes-leave-formula-e-2022\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mercedes, Audi, and BMW exit<\/a> after this year. As Formula E turns the page into the Gen3 era, Maserati returns to single-seater racing for the first time since the 1950s. Rumors continue that F1&#8217;s McLaren will be filling one of those additional voids next season.<\/p>\n<p>Maserati has competed in Motorsports since 1926. The company operated in Formula 1 throughout the 1940s-60s both as a team and engine supplier. Maserati has a storied history in F-series racing. Juan Manuel Fangio won the World Championship in 1954 and 1957 with Maserati.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-Juan_Manuel_Fangio_21-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Maserati CEO Davide Grasso stated: <em>\u201cWe 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. Formula E is the perfect championship for this purpose and we are very proud to be the first Italian brand to join the fold.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>The Folgore<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Gen3 era brings the iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maserati_HQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Maserati_HQ<\/a> to electric street racing, coming Season 9 2022\/2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ChangeAccelerated?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ChangeAccelerated<\/a> \u26a1\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula E (@FIAFormulaE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIAFormulaE\/status\/1480849467251183616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The move allows Maserati the chance to showcase their new &#8216;Folgore&#8217;. \u201c<em>Formula E races in the heart of the most iconic cities in the world and has a progressive global audience. Our millions of fans will be thrilled to see Maserati line up on the grid as one of the world\u2019s elite electric car brands,<\/em>&#8221; stated Formula E CEO Jamie Reigle.<\/p>\n<p>2023 will mark a new era for Formula E. The Gen3 car will debut with reduced weight and an increase in battery and power. In what is already a hyper-competitive field, the new design should produce even more variety in race winners and podiums.<\/p>\n<p>Formula E starts Season 8 on January 28th in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In other news, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2022\/01\/11\/formula-2-driver-lineup-remaining-open-seats\/\" target=\"_self\">Formula 2: Driver Lineup \u2013 Remaining Open Seats<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Main Image Credit: <a id=\"iyLVTKuKQBRD08Gf5kEc7g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1233851117\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'iyLVTKuKQBRD08Gf5kEc7g',sig:'oKmC4T3GR46mK7PQ1W7CvgwLZSjzG6wvyKUms2UNRS8=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233851117',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian luxury brand Maserati to join motorsport as Formula E embarks on a new era in 2023 with the Gen3 design. Season 8 of Formula E is approaching, with excitement building, in addition, Maserati have announced huge news. Maserati will join Formula E next season. The move comes as welcome news for the series which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4061,"featured_media":9693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"349","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[23,27,759],"class_list":["post-9685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-formula-e","tag-formula-1","tag-formula-e","tag-maserati"],"modified_by":"Sam Pearce","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}