[Noah930]

To add to the ALMS/Grand Am debate: why are the Daytona Prototypes so hideously ugly? Yes, I realize that there are mandatory cockpit dimensions around which the car must be packaged. I understand that NASCAR (and it's love for aerodynamic, yet still brickish racing cars and pickup trucks) is running the show. And I realize that a racing purist would judge the racing purely on that point--the on-track racing--versus how pretty the cars look.

But, man, those DP cars just don't excite me in any form or fashion. They're just not sexy. At all. ALMS prototypes are exotic, sleek supermodels, in comparison. They look fast even standing still, and that's a major part of the attraction for most sportscar fans (as well as non-blind people, I'd think). If you're going to the effort of writing the rules for a racing series (that you're trying to market and sell), at least write the rules so that the cars aren't mandatorily butt ugly.