Italian premium carmaker Maserati might return to formula One as early as next year, taking over naming rights for the Haas team.
Sources firmly insist Sergio Marchionne, who is CEO of both Ferrari as well as Maserati’s parent company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is preparing to send the Modena brand back to the formula One fray for the very first time in almost 60 years.
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The offer will provide Haas, the sport’s only us team, its very first major sponsor after two self-funded years in the sport, with Maserati paying a rumoured €20 million a season to paint its Trident on dark blue engine covers.
Effectively, the offer would pay all of Haas’s Ferrari V6 powertrain costs. like Alfa Romeo’s sponsorship of perennial back marker, Sauber, it would successfully see Maserati paying Ferrari €20 million a season, by means of Haas. The Maserati-Haas attire will be the fourth “Italian” team on the 2018 formula One grid, though only Toro Rosso as well as Ferrari will really be based in the country.
There is one more connection that might be beneficial to Maserati, with the Haas chassis advancement as well as building contracted to Maserati’s near neighbor (and often collaborator), Dallara, while the team likewise leases wind-tunnel time from Ferrari.
Far from complying with with with its danger to withdraw from formula One, Ferrari seems to be doubling down on the sport at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ expense, producing a three-team voting bloc against the FIA’s suggested modifications to its 2019 engine regulations.