FIVA mourns Alfieri Maserati 

Published: 04/02/2022

February 1 was a very sad one for the FIVA family.  In Turin, Alfieri Maserati, a long time FIVA Commission member sadly passed away.

Alfieri Maserati 

With Alfieri Maserati we had a descendant to the founders of the marque of the Trident in our ranks. He served FIVA for several years in both the Technical and the Cultural Commission, in the time when he was President of the Technical and Cultural Commission of FIVA’s ANF in Italy, ASI. That was from 2006 to 2009, and 2010 to 2015 respectively.

Proud, and rightly so, of his family’s past and hence that of the Maserati Company, Alfieri Maserati passed away at the age of 84, after a brief illness. He was the son of Ernesto, the youngest of the Maserati brothers, who had named him after his brother Alfieri,  the main founder of Maserati. The deceased was a great connoisseur of motoring history and brought his skills, experience and much of his time to the service of ASI and to FIVA. With a passion for authenticity and truth, Alfieri Maserati wrote some important articles on his family, full of unknown details but always well documented, for ASI’s La Manovella magazine. In his Turin home he kept an impressive archive and he was in the process of reconstructing, in great detail, the history of the Maserati brothers and founding fathers: Alfieri, Bindo, Ettore, and Ernesto. In the Museum of Industrial Heritage in Bologna he set up a section dedicated to the Maserati brothers.

Alfieri Maserati, himself an engineer, was involved in the industrial scene participating in the running of O.S.C.A., the company which was founded in 1947 by Bindo, Ettore and Ernesto, and which produced high quality sports models whose main feature was the powerful, small displacement engines capable of competing with cars of a higher category.

After the O.S.C.A. story ended in 1967, Alfieri Maserati continued his work as a skilled designer in his own right, while maintaining a keen interest in reconstructing the history of Maserati and O.S.C.A. (Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobili—Fratelli Maserati S.p.A), by helping collectors restore their Maserati or O.S.C.A. cars.

FIVA and the historic vehicle community remember Alfieri Maserati as a most eminent personality, a true Italian gentleman. We wish all the best to his relatives and friends.