Just for future info (if you're so inclined) you could have shift + P and rejoined. Telepitting was permitted , you'd just lose 1 lap.
I was looking forward to you and joaofrs continuing as you two were going to be my most likely competitors for finishing position. probably not much door to door racing, but some interesting strategy. My last 45 minutes felt kind of meaningless and I made a lot of stupid mistakes as all I had to do was "finish".