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04-13-2009, 04:30 PM
Filed under: Motorsports (http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/), Sedans/Saloons (http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/), Sports/GTs (http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/), Euro (http://www.autoblog.com/category/euro/), Maserati (http://www.autoblog.com/category/maserati/)
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Patience is not a virtue of those who are used to going fast. While Maserati just took the wraps off the new GranTurismo MC GT4 racer (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/06/maserati-granturismo-mc-unveiled-for-the-gentlemen-racer/), deliveries to customer racing teams won't begin until October. So what's a team hellbent on racing Tridents in Europe to do in the meantime? Make their own Maserati racer.
A racing squad called Swiss Team is planning on fielding a competition-spec Quattroporte in a local Italian touring car league called the Superstars Series. The format is production-car based, so the final version isn't expected to look wildly different from the shapely Italian sportsedan we know and love, and the Trident-wielding team will face off against a grid of Audi RS4s, BMW M5s, Jaguar S-Type Rs and Chrysler 300C SRT8s.
Swiss Team has already recruited former F1 driver Andrea Chiesa to pilot the first car, and the outfit plans on fielding a second entry as well. Currently a work in progress, nobody has seen the car yet. What you see above is, of course, just a factory-based rendering - and not a very good one at that - but hopefully when the race-prepped QPorte debuts for the first round of testing later this month, it'll look every bit the business. Details in the press release after the jump.
[Source: Superstars (http://www.eurosuperstars.com/eng/default.asp) via Jalopnik (http://jalopnik.com/5206738/maserati-quattroporte-racer-to-debut-in-superstars-series)]Continue reading Swiss Team takes Maserati Quattroporte to the track in Superstar Series (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/13/swiss-team-takes-maserati-quattroporte-to-the-track-in-superstar/)
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Patience is not a virtue of those who are used to going fast. While Maserati just took the wraps off the new GranTurismo MC GT4 racer (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/06/maserati-granturismo-mc-unveiled-for-the-gentlemen-racer/), deliveries to customer racing teams won't begin until October. So what's a team hellbent on racing Tridents in Europe to do in the meantime? Make their own Maserati racer.
A racing squad called Swiss Team is planning on fielding a competition-spec Quattroporte in a local Italian touring car league called the Superstars Series. The format is production-car based, so the final version isn't expected to look wildly different from the shapely Italian sportsedan we know and love, and the Trident-wielding team will face off against a grid of Audi RS4s, BMW M5s, Jaguar S-Type Rs and Chrysler 300C SRT8s.
Swiss Team has already recruited former F1 driver Andrea Chiesa to pilot the first car, and the outfit plans on fielding a second entry as well. Currently a work in progress, nobody has seen the car yet. What you see above is, of course, just a factory-based rendering - and not a very good one at that - but hopefully when the race-prepped QPorte debuts for the first round of testing later this month, it'll look every bit the business. Details in the press release after the jump.
[Source: Superstars (http://www.eurosuperstars.com/eng/default.asp) via Jalopnik (http://jalopnik.com/5206738/maserati-quattroporte-racer-to-debut-in-superstars-series)]Continue reading Swiss Team takes Maserati Quattroporte to the track in Superstar Series (http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/13/swiss-team-takes-maserati-quattroporte-to-the-track-in-superstar/)
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