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Goodbye or good riddance to motorsport's ugly duckling?

The end of the Daytona Prototype era may have passed with little fuss for those outside the United States. But the sometimes-bizarre cars should be remembered for a job well done

They were - or at least started out as - the ugly ducklings of the sportscar world. They forsook 20 or 30 years of technological advancements in motorsport. And they weren't as quick as what had gone before.

Daytona Prototypes had the odds stacked against them in our European eyes, but is it time to reinterpret the place in history of a class that bowed out earlier this month at the Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta?

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