At the Maserati factory in Viale Ciro Menotti, the 2008 FIA GT Champions, the Maserati Vitaphone Racing Team, put on a special demonstration in an area normally reserved for freshly produced GranTurismos and Quattroportes.

Normally screaming engines, burning tyres, wild burn-outs and automotive donuts would be more than frowned on at the Maserati factory in Italy’s super car capital, Modena, and workers would never be expected to carry out major mechanical work in a matter of seconds.

But, for one evening, everything changed at the Maserati factory in Viale Ciro Menotti, Modena, Italy, with the 2008 FIA GT Champions, the Maserati Vitaphone Racing Team, putting on a special demonstration in an area normally reserved for freshly produced GranTurismos and Quattroportes to celebrate their all-conquering wins in the 2008 FIA GT World Championship.

The team demonstrated to hundreds of factory workers and their families how quickly they can work on the Maserati MC12 racing car and how driver changes can be done within seconds during the endurance races, before the newly crowned drivers’ champions, Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels, put their MC12 through its paces.

The celebrations capped over another highly successful motorsport season for Maserati with the MC12, and its four year haul of trophies. Since the year of its debut, 2004, to today, MC12 has won an overall ten titles in the FIA GT (4 Drivers', 4 GT1 Teams' and 2 Manufacturers' titles). This year's high level of FIA GT International Championship racing was confirmed by the participation of five different car makes under the category GT1: Maserati, Aston Martin, Chevrolet Corvette, Ferrari and Lamborghini. Ferrari and Porsche were part of the GT2 category. In general, over twenty cars competed at each race