Fabio Babini and Thomas Biagi hold onto the championship lead after claiming an extremely important third place for Maserati at the end of the closely fought FIA GT race at Imola today

Maurizio Fabris triumphed in the third round of the Trofeo Vodafone Maserati Europa, held today at Imola

Two Maserati MC12s will start from the second row tomorrow in the fourth round of the FIA GT Championship race at Imola

Pirelli will arrive at Imola this weekend with new compounds available for the Maserati MC12 and Ferrari 575 GTC Evoluzione

Jeff Segal and Joao Barbosa guided the Maserati Trofeo Light to a superb fifth place in the GT class in the rain-soaked 6 Hours of Mt Tremblant, Canada

Peter Hackett, driving the familiar Lamborghini Australia-run Diablo GTR, dominated at Phillip Island over the weekend as the new Australian GT Championship got underway

After an incident-packed ALMS race at Mid Ohio the Maserati MC12, which had started at the back of the grid, finished 5th in the GT1 class

Maserati, which qualified third in the GT1 class, will start from the back of the grid for the third round of the American Le Mans Series at Mid-Ohio

The progress made by Maserati in the opening two ALMS races at Sebring and Road Atlanta mean the team are heading into this weekend's race at Mid Ohio in high spirits

Reigning FIA GT Champions, BMS Scuderia Italia, returning to Le Mans for the first time since 1997, have confirmed an international driver line up

Ferrari Team UK's Peter Sowerby made it a fantastic two wins from two races in the European Ferrari 360 Challenge Trofeo Pirelli at Silverstone over the weekend

The Vitaphone Racing Team has announced that British driver Jamie Davies will be joining them for round six of the 2005 FIA GT Championship, the 'Proximus 24 Hours of Spa'

Fabio Babini and Thomas Biagi, in the Vitaphone Racing Team MC12, finished on the podium in the third FIA GT race of the season, held at Silverstone yesterday

After three hours of very close, competitive racing at Silverstone under sunshine and blue skies, the Larbre Competition Ferrari 550 finished in sixth place on the track but fourth in the points

Fabio Babini and Thomas Biagi claimed the final podium position in their Maserati MC 12 at Silverstone as the two Aston Martin DB9s dominated on the occasion of their FIA GT debut

The two Care Racing Ferrari 550 Maranellos qualified at Silverstone with an identical time and will line up side by side on the third row of the grid for tomorrow's FIA GT Championship race

After two extremely close qualifying sessions around the 3.62 km Silverstone International circuit, tomorrow's third round of the FIA GT Championship promises to be a fascinating race

The warm weather heralds the renewal of the duel between Maserati drivers and their eternal rivals from Ferrari as this weekend sees the start of the Shell Ferrari-Maserati Historic Challenge

Photo Gallery: FIA GT Championship - Maserati MC 12 and Ferrari 550 Maranello - Pall Mall, London

An FIA GT1-class JMB Racing Maserati MC 12 and a Larbre Ferrari 550 Maranello, joined a number of the other FA GT Championship cars in Central London