► Maserati MC20 GT2 Stradale revealed
► Hardcore track weapon with more power
► Plus new drive modes and motorsport aero
Maserati has pulled the covers off its latest MC20 variant: the GT2 Stradale. As the name suggests, it’s a road-going version of its hardcore GT2 racing car. The new MC20 variant has been unveiled at 2024’s version of The Quail, one of the many events during the 2024 Monterey Car Week.
As you’d expect from the name, the GT2 Stradale is a pretty serious bit of kit. Maserati says it smashes together its two personality halves – ‘elegance and racing’ – and features the most powerful version of the Nettuno V6 deployed in so many modern Maseratis. With the GT2 Stradale, the V6 engine develops 631bhp, good for a 2.8sec 0-62mph sprint and a top speed of 201mph.
Naturally, because it’s heavily inspired by the GT2 race car, there’s a lot of standard and pretty hardcore fixed aerodynamics that have been added to the Stradale model. A more aggressive splitter at the front, as well as a large fixed rear wing are both standard. All of that serious aerodynamic work means the GT2 Stradale generates up to 500kg of downforce, albeit only really accessible at a 174mph speed.
The GT2 Stradale uses the same carbonfibre structure as the race car, and includes carbonfibre air ducts and rear wing to keep things light.
Given it’s also a 21st ceuntury supercar, the MC20 GT2 Stradale is beriddled with software and drive modes. This model goes beyond the standard MC20 model with a new Corsa mode that splits itself into five different versions with increasingly hardcore attributes.
Standard Corsa model still, for example, has full ABS and some use of the traction control; Corsa ‘1’ has the traction control turned off, the limited-slip differential slackened and even the ABS curbed.
New colours launch with the GT2 Stradale, and there’s even more Alcantara inside.