I cant believe it really needs answering, but how about... because it'd be stupid.
1) why force the driver to sit and drive 50 meaningless laps for the sake of about 64pts i think it would be. The guy wanted to drive, we tried to fit him into server #2 which i was adminning so that at least he was taking part, however nobody vanished so the server was full, infact i had to kick him at one point because he was hogging the place of someone that disconnected right at the end of sorting out the race line-up, then i had to ban him (it was lag-lap, but didnt want the discussion going on into the actual race start) cos despite being told there was no room he kept going on about where he was racing when he'd already been told he didnt need to as there was nobody else to race against, take the pts and watch some tv or something.
2) As an admin of the series, i can tell you it aint exactly all fun and games watching over a race that doesnt really mean an awful lot to us, its not exactly meant to i understand that, but were donating our time for the pleasure of others, and im not making someone sit in a server waiting for 1 person to finish their 50 laps for nobody!
Additionally, there was a shortage of admins for this round (what new!) and the Server #1 admin was actually racing, I was in #2, and Pecker was in #3 and it was considered slightly more important that someone was in server #1 rather than wasting their time in #3 making sure nothing happened to him.
It wont be the first time something like this happens, too many teams think it'll be fun taking part but dont realise whats involved and cant put in the commitment needed, its the same with every series, theres always plenty of people thinking how great it'd be and how they can do it, and then round by round people disappear, a couple with the decency to actually inform the organisers. Fortunately the system actually works pretty well with this, the folk in the lowest server lose out a little i guess, but if the series had fixed teams for the whole series, you'd probably notice that its not the quicker teams that arent competing, its those with no real league history, no true team commitment and such that probably would have been in the 3rd server, and that'd only encourage the other teams to quit if only half the teams were still taking part.
Personally i think a new rule needs to be introduced, that if there are less than 8 people in a server, then the race is abandoned and points are awarded by their qualifying order, or possibly only half distance is run. Its not fair on the drivers i know, but a line needs to be drawn as to what is and isnt acceptable as a 'race', and whether its worthwhile making those people (+admin) do it.
Obviously I had to pit too, and eventually finished 4th 
Sorry about that
