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Ferrari Daytona SP3 Award

Ferrari Daytona SP3 wins Red Dot: Best of the Best.

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Four highly prestigious awards have been scooped by Ferrari at the end of March. At the Red Dot Award: Product Design awards, the Ferrari Daytona SP3 received the Red Dot: Best of the Best 2022 award. The Daytona SP3 joins the limited-edition Icona Series. The mid-rear engined V12 sports car gets its inspiration from 1960s Sports Prototypes, the 330 P3/4, 330 P4 and 412P that took the first three places of the International World Sports Car Championship 24 Hours of Daytona 1967. It high-lights the work of the Ferrari Styling Centre, headed by Flavio Manzoni, that has devised cutting-edge solutions that render the Maranello based car manufacturer’s unique. The design is based on racing car designs of the sixties and seventies, such as the 330 P4, 350 Can-Am and 512S. These designs also inspired the use of a Targa design removable hardtop roof panel, providing the driver with wind in the hair driving and greater usability. The heart of the car is a mid-rear-mounted, naturally aspirated 6.5 litre V12 engine producing 838 bhp. The

F140HC is the most powerful internal combustion engine ever built by Ferrari. It is matched to a 7-Speed transmission system. This gives it a top speed of 211 mph (340 km/h) and it can accelerate from 0-62 mph in just 2.85 seconds and 0-124 mph in 7.4 seconds. Between 2015 and 2022 Ferrari has won a total of 23 Red Dot Awards, more than any other car manufacturer in the awards 68 year history. In the last eight awards, the jury has awarded Ferrari the most prestigious award, the Red Dot: Best of the Best, no fewer than seven times. This year the Ferrari Daytona SP3 follows in the footsteps of the FXX-K, the 488 GTB, the J50, the Portofino, the Monza SP1 and the SF90 Stradale

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