{"id":460299,"date":"2004-11-01T03:02:05","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T11:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=96037"},"modified":"2024-04-08T22:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T22:38:55","slug":"maseratis-promising-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/maseratis-promising-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Maserati\u2019s Promising Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They are back, and with a vengeance. Thirty-seven years after Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix in a Cooper T81 powered by a 12-cylinder Maserati engine, two works Maseratis made the company\u2019s official comeback to motor racing on September 5. The exciting new MC12 almost pulled off a win on its first outing at the Imola, Italy, circuit in the World GT Championship by finishing 2nd in the hands of factory test driver Andrea Bertolini and ex-Ferrari F1 pilot Mika Salo of Finland. Another F1 winner, Britain\u2019s Johnny Herbert, and Italy\u2019s ex-world kart champion Fabrizio De Simone, drove the other official MC12 into 3rd place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Idolized by more than 20,000 who were at Imola to witness the Maserati comeback, Ferrari-Maserati Group president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said after the race that Maserati held an important place in the history of F1 and is the only Italian constructor to have won the 500 Miles of Indianapolis twice. He confirmed that there would be no overlap between Ferrari and Maserati, with Maranello continuing in F1 and Modena competing for GT honors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_704041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-704041\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-704041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1-100x53.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1-770x411.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p1-293x156.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-704041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Maserati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is certainly great to see Ferrari and Maserati battling it out on the same circuit once more\u201d, said Montezemolo. A reference to the Ferrari 550 Maranellos that also compete in the GT championship, the highest placed of which at Imola was the Cappellari-Gollin car in 4th place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Montezemolo was the darling of the crowd at the Italian circuit. Banners and signs brandishing messages like \u201cViva Luca, You\u2019re the Best\u201d, \u201cYou\u2019re our Number One\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re handsome, Mr. President\u201d earned waves and chuckles from the new head of the Fiat Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Submitted by Robert Newman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are back, and with a vengeance. Thirty-seven years after Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix in a Cooper T81 powered by a 12-cylinder Maserati engine, two works Maseratis made the company\u2019s official comeback to motor racing on September 5. The exciting new MC12 almost pulled off a win on its first outing at the Imola, Italy, circuit in the World GT Championship by finishing 2nd in the hands of factory test driver Andrea Bertolini and ex-Ferrari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":704040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,261,255],"tags":[324,548,18151],"class_list":["post-460299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maserati","category-motorsport-racing","category-news","tag-maserati","tag-motorsport","tag-racing-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maserati\u2019s Promising Comeback<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maserati\u2019s Promising Comeback\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/maseratis-promising-comeback\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maserati\u2019s Promising Comeback\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maserati\u2019s Promising Comeback\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/maseratis-promising-comeback\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2004-11-01T11:02:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-08T22:38:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/11\/n2-200411-p2-293x127-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"293\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"127\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"SportsCarDigest Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"SportsCarDigest Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/maseratis-promising-comeback\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/maseratis-promising-comeback\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"SportsCarDigest Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/51d193ee53f997a3f6d82ce34de31baa\"},\"headline\":\"Maserati\u2019s Promising Comeback\",\"datePublished\":\"2004-11-01T11:02:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-08T22:38:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/maseratis-promising-comeback\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":291,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/maseratis-promising-comeback\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2004\\\/11\\\/n2-200411-p2-293x127-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Maserati\",\"Motorsport &amp; 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