Designed to Win

Flavio Manzoni, Ferrari’s Senior Vice President of Design, gives us the lowdown on the already-iconic Daytona SP3

- By Nicolas Stecher

While the Monza SP1 reprises the barchetta concept, which is essentially a single-seater body with no roof, the Daytona SP3 arose from the idea of developing an equally as strong design product,” explains Flavio Manzoni. The inspiration Ferrari’s Chief Design Officer refers to being of course the legendary 330 P4 sports-prototype racers that captured the entire podium at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1967, cementing their place in Ferrari—and all motorsports—lore.

The latest in the Icona Series, the Daytona SP3 follows the twin Monzas (single-seater SP1 and SP2 coupé) revealed in 2018. Envisioned for very low volume, every car in the newly minted cost-bedamned Icona Series will be available only to Ferrari’s most elite— think loyal and wealthy—clientele. While the windshield-less Monzas were straight-lined and sleek, the newest SP3 features swooping wheel arches, a wraparound windshield, and knife-like rear strakes that perhaps nod to the 1980s Testarossa.