Maserati Project24, the supercar that bears the signature of Argentine Pablo D’Agostino,
Maserati surprised the whole world when he revealed the first details of the Project24, an incredible super sports car so powerful that it is not even destined for the road, but only to be driven on the track. But the news went particularly deep in Argentina, given that the development bears the signature of a talent of the house: it is Pablo D’Agostino, Chief Exterior Designer of the company.
Originally from Mar del Plata, D’Agostino is an industrial designer, graduated from the university of that city, but has lived in Italy for 20 years. There he completed his studies at the prestigious European Institute of Design in Turin, but he also developed an extraordinary career in the automotive world, first passing through Fiat – where he participated, among others, in the project of the new Cinquecento – and subsequently, since 2014, in the brand of the trident, to which he nourishes a particular affection for his fanaticism for Juan Manuel Fangio.
Pablo D’Agostino, the Argentine designer who succeeds in Maserati.
“My first contact with a Maserati was when I was 12, when I was at the Fangio Museum in Balcarce”recalled D’Agostino, who during that visit could not control his genius: when he saw the opportunity, he broke the rules and got on the famous 250F with which Chueco made history in Formula 1 in 1957: it was when he won his fifth world title with an unforgettable victory at the German Grand Prix, when he recovered from 48 seconds in 22 laps to beat Mike Hawtorn on the penultimate lap. “I wanted to experience the feeling of sitting behind the wheel,” he said.
The Argentine creator of the new Maserati
With that passion for cars and high performance that’s what D’Agostino joined Maserati in 2014 and has participated in all kinds of projects: his debut was in the team behind the design of the SUV I raisedbut later continued with the new generation of Quattroporte and, further back in time, drew the lines of the MC20the powerful sports car on which this new prototype is based to push its limits and go further in terms of performance.
Maserati Project24, the 740 horsepower beast.
To begin with, the engine: This is the same V6 Nettuno, a 3.0 petrol biturbo with Formula 1 technology. and that in that model delivers 630 hp, but that in this one, with new turbochargers, increases its power to 740 hp. And Maserati combines it with a light body that allows it to reach an overall weight of less than 1,250 kilos, thus registering a weight / power ratio of 1.69 kg / HP.
Maserati Project24 derives from the MC20, in which D’Agostino also participated.
In addition to such figures, it incorporates elements such as a new double wishbone suspension with adjustable shock absorbers and stabilizer bars, added to a brake system with carbon-ceramic discs and custom cooling, racing tires for 18-inch forged aluminum wheels with locking centralized and various safety elements approved by the FIA, among the many luxuries that can be given to a car that does not have to think about limiting itself to the regulations to circulate on roads and paths.
Maserati MC20 Sky
But there are also many innovations in its external design, the D’Agostino area: beyond some similarities with the MC20, the three sketches that Maserati showed confirm that it is a car with its own personality and many elements. specially designed for the occasion. even the windows – which are made of polycarbonate, to save weight – seem tailor-made for the project.
In that sense, its radical look is complemented by the LED lights in the bumpers that are a nod to the Maserati tridenta huge rear spoiler, dual exhausts, elongated foot pegs, racing mirrors and hood vents, among other qualities that add aesthetics and performance.
Pablo D’Agostino in action at Goodwood.
For this reason, it is that Maserati will also appeal to offer it not only as a limited and exclusive edition of 62 unitsbut it will also allow its owners to access a special range of services, including racing circuit experiences and world-class assistance designed specifically for this development.
The origins of Pablo D’Agostino
Nowadays, The man from Mar del Plata is Head of Exterior Design for the brand. And it is your responsibility to shape company cars. In the early 1990s, she started industrial-oriented high school. She came with the fanaticism for cars that she had in mind since she was a child.
D’Agostino makes the gesture of holding the wheel to talk about his passion for cars since he was a child.
“Ever since I was little I was attracted to things with wheels. Cars have been of great inspiration and importance in my life. In my family they weren’t passionate about cars, but I was particularly attracted to them. There was a blank space on the board and he drew a highway touring carD’Agostino said in a lecture he gave for the National University of the Rosary.
He started university in 1996. He recognized himself as “self-taught” in the use of design tools that are very common today, such as rendered projection work, a technology that did not exist at its beginnings in the Industrial Design career and which today “is accessed with thousands of tutorials on YouTube”.
A post by Pablo D’Agostino on Instagram: in love with the 500.
He graduated in 2001 but before graduating he tried his luck with a design competition organized by the A Todo Motor program, led by former driver Rubén Daray, who was awarded a scholarship to do a master’s degree in automotive design in Madrid and Turin. He won it and was able to travel with his current wife (Fernanda, who was his fiancée at the time) thanks to some savings his father gave him in the midst of the economic crisis that blew up the Alliance government.
In 2004 Fiat entered the world as an external collaboratorrole from which he joined the Advanced Design team, in which it was part of the project of the modern version of the sixteenth century. According to what he said, in clear Spanish but which mixes in tone with the cadence of the Italian he speaks every day, this car was a break in his life.
D’Agostino’s drawing of the Maserati MC20.
“The project that most marked me as a designer and for the impact it had on society was the sixteenth century. We had a crazy repercussion, we didn’t know what we were planning until the car hit the streets. It had so much weight in society, for what it represented for Italians, that more than an object we design a feeling“, graphic.
He is an Argentine more integrated into the elite of the European automotive industry, like Juan Manuel Díaz at Audi, Esteban Palazzo at McLaren and the lighthouse he represents for all of them. Orazio Pagani. Pablo D’Agostino is the same one who left Argentina for the first time in 2002 to do the Masters. And he did it to stay there.
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