Rejoining Single-Seat Racing, Maserati Preps for Portland E-Prix, Commits to Season 10

• Maserati's Formula E racing debut has been checkered with middling results and DNFs, but the Maserati MSG Racing team has recently been on its game.

• With a win in Jakarta and a third-place podium in Berlin, Maximilian Günther is heading up the team's resurgence, as it prepares for this weekend's Portland E-Prix.

• Head of Maserati Racing Giovanni Tommaso Sgro said Maserati specifically picked Formula E for its return to motorsports, given its forward-thinking, sustainable approach.

Rejoining the single-seat motorsports arena for 2023, Maserati's first venture into electric racing has been a mixed bag so far. A pattern of did-not-finish results from both drivers, German-born Maximilian Günther and Swiss-born Edoardo Mortara, plagued early rounds of the season, but Maserati MSG Racing is starting to claw its way back.

Starting from the eighth spot and wheeling around the shuttered Tempelhof Airport, Günther managed to secure a third-place finish at the Sabic Berlin E-Prix. A month later, the team boasted back-to-back podiums from Günther at the two-round Gulavit Jakarta E-Prix, finishing with third and then first-place results. Mortara generally held his own, too, holding onto his sixth starting position in round one at Jakarta.

But a new challenge is on the horizon this weekend, as Formula E approaches its first North American race of the season in Portland, Oregon. Hosted at Portland International Raceway, the 2.002-mile track will be the third longest on the roster this year (only Monaco and Rome are longer) with lengthy straights on both ends, forcing the team to reconsider its strategy.

"Portland is a very special track for us. It's very, very fast and very energy sensitive," Günther said in a media roundtable. "I think we can expect some very exciting and maybe even unpredictable racing on Saturday."