John never appeared on my grid at all. Did thought it was strange the server thought he was still racing as his name drifted around the live standings. It was only after finishing and watching the 'slowdown lap' and saw the massage saying he had cut the track did I realise he was driving!
So I had done about 15mins practise before hand knowing how much I hate the short track so it was some surprise to get on the server and realise as I brake for turn 2, onto the short track, that the barriers are up. So I check the track config in game, 'national' bit annoyed so check the website....
Must have forgotten about the national config being available. and clearly no one picked up my comments in the earlier post!
After practise it looked like I was going to be in no mans land behind GT, Eck etc and ahead of Matt, Apex, SWR but in qually was surprised to be third, which ended up second at the start. Was saying to Eck I don't think I was going to last too long aft our last race in these but surprised to harass GT as long as I did. Both of us making a few mistakes here and there with the gap staying around a second or so. Picked up a cut track which was rather severe and then SRW decided to get a bit too aggressive racing me, forcing me off when lapping him. Else I was hoping to try and close the gap more. Tyres had definitely gone off at the end with most going yellow and had been playing with the brake bias to help.
With so few places to overtake round here it was fun chasing GT but knew it was going to be tough actually overtaking!