Cool Victory team has announced that it will take delivery of one of the new GT4 class Maserati GranTurismo MC racers this autumn and will debut the brand-new Trident car in the Dubai 24 Hours, thus becoming the first team to officially confirm an order for Modena's latest product.

According to a statement issued by Cool Victory: "Team Captain Olivier Doeblin announced today that the endurance race team of Cool Victory has completed an agreement to take delivery of the newly developed GranTurismo MC for the 2010 season. Unveiled only this past April, Maserati is producing a limited run of just fifteen of the racecars, homologated for the European Cup and National Endurance Series."

Demonstrating its instant promise, the GranTurismo MC made its race track debut during the GT4 European Cup rounds that accompanied the sixty-first running of the 24 Hours of Spa last month, kicking off its competitive life with a very impressive second place finish. Cool Victory expects to take delivery of its new car in September, and then will immediately begin setups for its engagement at the 24 Hours of Dubai.

"We see this as a nice addition to our development program for the long run to the 24 Heures du Mans," said Team Manager Ric Lee in the statement. "This will give us the opportunity to develop our relationship with the people at Maserati and put us on a track to work with a marque that has a long and successful racing history."

Cool Victory is something of an unknown although it claims that it has international experience racing Lamborghinis. Only a road-going Gallardo features on its official website, and the content betrays a lack of motor racing knowledge. Cool Victory appears to be set to try the route of persuading fans through a 'global membership' scheme to have their names feature on its cars in exchange for a nominal sum. “It seems the world is full of limitations and exclusive programs only meant for the very few,” explained Lee recently. “As a racing team, we know that we’re involved in a sport not intimately accessible to many fans and participants. Let’s face it. Lamborghinis don’t come cheap. We’ve designed an opportunity for those who want to be a verifiable piece of history, who want to know the insider action of this high-speed lifestyle.”