Ferrari’s 365 GTB/4 Daytona would become revered as one of the marque’s great grand touring cars, presented as a mechanically developed version of the 275 GTB/4.

Not wishing to dilute the specification of the four-cam’s engine, it continued to be fed by six twin-choke downdraught Weber carburettors and lubricated using a dry sump system, so to remain as a proper competition derived engine.

It is hardly surprising then that soon after launch, privateers such as Luigi Chinetti’s NART team began to push the factory to develop the Daytona Competizione for Group IV racing.

Ultimately, around 27 examples of the Daytona Competizione would be prepared for racing in period, with just 15 being produced by the factory in three series of five cars, and two further factory prototypes.

The cars’ specifications varied, with the earliest factory example being alloy-bodied, while later cars gained 450 brake horsepower engines.

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