Just placing this also here, wrote this on discord:
If u want to have some more participants from European time zones, having the race event starting 2-3 hours earlier would do the trick. Now it is okeyish for UK time zone, barely okey for central european time zone and not feasible for east european time zone. Also heard in discord that for many in eastern standard time zone, current event starting time is usual dinner time. This conflict would be solved also by moving the event start time. And moving it earlier would make it possible more Europeans to join the event.