Maserati GT2 starts 2026 season at Monza with 250F liveries
29/05/2026
Maserati is back at Monza. And this time, it arrives with more than just race cars.
For the opening round of the 2026 GT2 European Series powered by Pirelli, Maserati Corse will line up five Maserati GT2 cars at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. But the bigger emotional story is the debut of new 250F-inspired liveries for both the Maserati GT2 and the road-going Maserati GT2 Stradale.
Five Maserati GT2 cars at the Temple of Speed
The 2026 GT2 European Series begins at Monza on 30 and 31 May, and Maserati is arriving with serious presence. Five Maserati GT2 cars will be entered by three different teams: LP Racing, DINAMIC Motorsport and the new i4Race team. After two successful seasons in the Am class, with consecutive Drivers’ and Teams’ titles, Maserati is clearly not treating GT2 as a decorative motorsport programme.
It wants to win. Philippe Prette, Am-class champion in both 2024 and 2025, also returns in the new Master class with the number 1 Maserati GT2. For a brand that spent too long talking about its racing soul without showing enough of it, this is exactly the kind of grid presence Maserati needs.
The 250F tribute is the right kind of heritage
The new celebratory liveries are inspired by the legendary Maserati 250F, one of the most beautiful and important single-seaters of the 1950s. This is not a random retro reference. The 250F is one of the cars that built Maserati’s racing identity.
With Juan Manuel Fangio behind the wheel, it helped secure Formula 1 world titles in 1954 and 1957, with victories in places like Argentina, Belgium, Monaco and France. It was also driven by names like Stirling Moss, who won in Monaco and Italy in 1956, and Maria Teresa de Filippis, the first woman to qualify for a Formula 1 Grand Prix in 1958.
From GT2 to GT2 Stradale
The clever part is that Maserati is applying the 250F-inspired liveries not only to the race car, but also to the Maserati GT2 Stradale.
That is important because the GT2 Stradale is the bridge between Maserati’s racing programme and its road-car identity. It is the road-legal expression of the GT2 project, built around the idea of “from track to road”.
A double centenary with real symbolism
This season is especially important because Maserati is celebrating two major anniversaries. First, 100 years of the Trident logo. Second, 100 years since the first Maserati race entry. In 1926, the Maserati Tipo 26 became the first car to wear the Trident on its bonnet, and it won its class at the Targa Florio with Alfieri Maserati at the wheel.
The GT2 programme therefore lands at exactly the right moment. A century after the Trident first appeared in competition, Maserati is back in a category where customer racing, performance engineering and road-car credibility can all meet.
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The 250F-inspired liveries are a beautiful move because they connect Maserati’s Grand Prix past with its modern GT2 ambitions. The GT2 Stradale makes that link even stronger, because it gives road-car buyers a direct emotional connection to the race programme.
That is how Maserati becomes credible again. Not by shouting about history, but by using it properly. Five GT2 cars at Monza, a tribute to Fangio’s 250F, a century of the Trident and a road-going GT2 Stradale wearing the same spirit? Yes. More of this, please.
