Maserati

Maserati was formed by the brothers Alfieri and Ettore as a tuning business in 1914, the brothers then served in the 1st World War and resumed tuning and racing cars upon their return.
The company went into partnership with Diatto, designing a Grand Prix racing car in 1925, it was never raced but Maserati decided they should make there own car and this launched their career as a GP Manufacturer.
The cars were sold to many constructors and enjoyed success on all continents.
Their greatest success came in sportscars, but their Formula One legacy was ensured with the Maserati 250F, a beautiful car that took Stirling Moss to prominence and a factory drive for and Juan Manuel Fangio who won the World Drivers Championship at the wheel of one of these cars.
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==Background==
Maserati was formed by the brothers Alfieri and Ettore as a tuning business in 1914, the brothers then served in the 1st World War the company was left in the hands of 16 year old Ernesto Maserati.
When the brothers returned from war they began to tune cars and Alfieri raced them. This led to an alliance with the Diatto company and in 1925 the Maserati Brothers designed a Grand Prix car for Diatto. It was never built and the Maseratis decided to build their own instead. The car was debuted on the Targa Florio in 1926 and won its class. They began building customer cars to help fund their own racing.
==Prior to Formula One World Championship==
In March 1932, Alfieri died of kidney problems and Bindo Maserati joined Ettore and Ernesto and they continued the work begun by their brother.
Winning races became harder with the advances made by Alfa Romeo and the emergence of the German cars in the mid to late 1930s, and the company faced financial trouble and Adolfo Orsi, an industrialist from Modena joined the team.
The Maserati's left the business side of the company to be run by the savvy Orsi whilst they concentrated on engineering and enjoyed a string of Indianapolis 500 wins, although the war came and the Orsi Family gradually edged them out. As the war progressed, Maserati had to move into the production of trucks.
In 1946, the Maserati Brothers left the company and set up OSCA while the Orsi's began building roadgoing cars. Racing activities were overseen by Scuderia Milan amougst others and wins were achieved by drivers like Raymond Sommer, Luigi Villoresi and Alberto Ascari. The cars were largely modified pre-war models but new cars were commissioned by the team and by Scuderia Ambrosiana and so the firm enjoyed considerable success in the immediate postwar era.
==Formula One World Championship==
===1950===
Maserati were heavily represented on the grid in 1950, represented by many private entries and professional racing teams and with a selection of cars:
Entrant	Driver
Officine Alfieri Maserati - 
Maserati 4CLT/48	
Louis Chiron
Franco Rol
Scuderia Ambrosiana - 
Maserati 4CLT/48	
Reg Parnell
David Hampshire
David Murray
Joe Fry - 
Maserati 4CL	
Joe Fry
Brian Shawe-Taylor
Enrico Plate - 
Maserati 4CLT/48	
Toulo de Graffenried
Prince Bira
Scuderia Milano - 
Maserati 4CLT/50	
Felice Bonetto
Franco Comotti
Scuderia Achille Varzi- 
Maserati 4CLT/48	
José Froilán González
Nello Pagani
Antonio Branca
Paul Pietsch - 
Maserati 4CLT/48	Paul Pietsch
Antonio Branca -
Maserati 4CL	Antonio Branca
 	
1950 brought mixed success for Maserati drivers against the dominant Alfa Romeo, the factory Talbot-Lago and the ever improving Ferrari cars points were hard to come by.
Prince Bira was the marques most successful driver in 1950, picking up points in 5th Monaco and 4th Switzerland finishing 8th in the championship. In Switzerland Maserati drivers finished 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, the other Maserati scorer was Italian Felice Bonetto.
A podium finish from Louis Chiron at his home Grand Prix in Monaco was a highlight for the Maserati team, but represented the only other points scoring position for the Italian cars in the World Championship competition.
==F1 Summary==
===As constructor===
Year	Cars 	Engines 	Tires	Drivers 	Rounds 	WCC Points	WCC Pos.	Report
 	4CLT/48 	4CL 1.5 L4s 	 	Louis Chiron 	1-2, 4, 6-7	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	4CLT/48 	4CL 1.5 L4s 	 	Franco Rol 	2, 6-7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM 	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Felice Bonetto 	6, 8 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM 	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Franco Rol 	8 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM 	A6 2.0 L6 	 	José Froilán González	8 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Juan Manuel Fangio 	1, 3-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	José Froilán González	1, 3-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Felice Bonetto 	1, 3, 5-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Oscar Gálvez 	1 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Johnny Claes 	4 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Onofre Marimón 	4-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Hermann Lang 	8 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Sergio Mantovani 	9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCMA6GCM/53	A6 2.0 L6 	 	Luigi Musso 	9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Juan Manuel Fangio 	1, 3 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Onofre Marimón 	1, 3-6 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Luigi Musso 	1, 8-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Prince Bira 	1 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Sergio Mantovani 	3-4, 6-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Alberto Ascari 	4-5 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Luigi Villoresi 	4-6, 8 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Roberto Mieres 	7-9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Stirling Moss 	7, 9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Louis Rosier 	8 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Paco Godia 	9 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Jean Behra 	1-2, 4-7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Roberto Mieres 	1-2, 4-7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Luigi Musso 	1-2, 4-7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Sergio Mantovani 	1 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Clemar Bucci 	1 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Harry Schell 	1 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Carlos Menditeguy 	1, 7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Cesare Perdisa 	2, 4 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	André Simon 	6 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Peter Collins 	7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	A6GCM250F 	A6 2.0 L6250F 2.5 L6	 	Horace Gould 	7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
===Private entreats===
Year	Entreat	Cars	Engines	Tires	Drivers	Rounds
===As engine supplier===
Year	Entreat 	Cars	Engines 	Tires	Drivers 	Rounds 	WCC Points	WCC Pos.	Report
 	Scuderia Volpini 	F1 	4CLT 2.5 L4 	 	Luigi Piotti 	7 	N/A 	N/A 	Report
 	High Efficiency Motors	T45 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Roy Salvadori 	1, 4, 9	0 	NC 	Report
 	High Efficiency Motors	T45 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Jack Fairman 	8 	0 	NC 	Report
 	Scuderia Centro Sud 	T51 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Ian Burgess 	4-6, 8 	0 	NC 	Report
 	Scuderia Centro Sud 	T51 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Colin Davis 	4, 8 	0 	NC 	Report
 	Scuderia Centro Sud 	T51 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Hans Herrmann 	5 	0 	NC 	Report
 	Scuderia Centro Sud 	T51 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Mário de Araújo Cabral	7 	0 	NC 	Report
 	J.B. Naylor 	59 	250S 2.5 L4 	 	Brian Naylor 	5 	0 	NC 	Report
 	Camoradi USA 	F415	250F1 2.5 L6	 	Fritz d'Orey 	9 	0 	NC 	Report
==List of race wins==
No.	Race 	Driver
 	1933 French Grand Prix 	Giuseppe Campari
 	1933 Belgian Grand Prix 	Tazio Nuvolari
 	1948 Monaco Grand Prix 	Giuseppe Farina
 	1948 British Grand Prix 	Luigi Villoresi
 	1949 British Grand Prix 	Emmanuel de Graffenried
1 	1953 Italian Grand Prix 	Juan Manuel Fangio
2 	1954 Argentine Grand Prix	Juan Manuel Fangio
3 	1954 Belgian Grand Prix 	Juan Manuel Fangio
4 	1956 Monaco Grand Prix 	Stirling Moss
5 	1956 Italian Grand Prix 	Stirling Moss
6 	1957 Argentine Grand Prix	Juan Manuel Fangio
7 	1957 Monaco Grand Prix 	Juan Manuel Fangio
8 	1957 French Grand Prix 	Juan Manuel Fangio
9 	1957 German Grand Prix 	Juan Manuel Fangio
==Statistics==
==Complete Formula One Results==
==Notes==
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