Andy, that's a very good attitute! Accept where you're at, but enjoy getting tuffer competition and strive to improve!
The reason for us aliens to come to the UK to race is not to win (I'm not a pro), it's go get beaten. Badly! So we can improve...
Next year: just looked through the minutes from the EFRA AGM, electrics... can't see anything specific for 1:10 OR... so I guess nobody applied. Come on BRCA!
If there won't be an EC in the UK next year it'd be great if someone started working on a GP already now! And that should be a yearly event, changing venue every year. If there is an EC, the GP could be a combined GP/EC warm-up at the same track?