The Maserati MC20-based GT2 made its racing debut over the weekend, participating in the final round of the 2023 Fanatec GT2 European Series at Circuit Paul Ricard in France. The first team competing with the GT2 is LP Racing with drivers Leonardo Gorini and Luca Pirri. It didn’t take long for the GT2 to prove itself, claiming pole position on Friday and finishing in 2nd place for the first race on Saturday. It then finished in 7th in the second race of the weekend.
The Maserati GT2 is the Italian marque’s
first entrant into GT racing competition since the 2000s when it raced the MC12
and claimed 13 drivers’, constructors’, and teams’ championships. Like the
road-going MC20 on which it is based, the GT2 rocks a 3.0-liter
twin-turbocharged V6 but unlike the road car, the racer ditches an eight-speed
dual-clutch in favor of a six-speed sequential transmission. It also benefits
from a bespoke limited-slip differential and is fitted with two-way adjustable
dampers at all four corners. Maserati has also gone to town on the car’s
aerodynamics, fitting it with a revised front fascia with a new splitter and
canards, a flat underbody, and a towering rear wing.
