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Regardless of whether their 2011 last-minute Sebring entry could have beaten everyone else in the field for the rest of the season had they had funding ... they did win the ALMS title a couple times, and had always shown themselves to be tremendously well prepared and professional.
I think the same thing happened there which happened with P2 champ Adrian Fernandez a couple years earlier: the team principal went looking for serious money to find a winning effort, not just "Get us to the grid" money, and all the serious money sources said "No."
Duncan Dayton wasn't about to spend his own money to fund a team---he already gets plenty of pleasure spending his own money to drive historics, why pay big bucks for someone else to drive hi8s cars?
The DWing program was a chance to keep a couple employees on the payroll in exchange for management and set-up services--but when the cash there went away, so did Highcroft Racing.
Not sure if Dayton is even looking for funding any more---pretty sure a very large corporation would have to write a very large check to get him back in the game. He has no desire to do a cheap, cut-rate job after having been at the top.
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