Saxplayer, Props to you for discovering which server works. Not sure wtf is up with North American servers but my experience tonight is as follows;
Fired up the widget tonight after a few weeks of not using it and adding a couple of new friends.
Logged said friend accounts to
http://us.gran-turismo.com/us/ and PSN via website and PS3 several times just to make sure the site's FL (Friends List) updated.
After verifying site FL was updated, logged hosting/mule account in and set to remote race.
Widget was set as before to US server. Widget very quickly goes from logging in to reserving drivers to starting race to race finished. In about 30 seconds. Anyone who's ever used this widget knows that ain't right.
Checked the Manage Drivers window of widget and nothing at all shows up. Check logs, they said no drivers available. Hmm Wonder why.
Change server to Spain and re-fire widget. Acts normally, although has not pulled friends that were just added tonight. Does have friend I'd added a couple weeks ago though. Runs a race.
First race finishes so I reset server to US. Same failure state as before. Reset server to Canada. Same failure. No drivers list and logs reports no drivers found.
Reset back to Spain, re-fire widget, drivers list appears to have updated to include those just added tonight.
Running second consecutive race from Spain server and it even appears to have saved the changes I'd made to the Always Use section.
to you Saxplayer!
Anyone have any insight as to what's going on with the North American servers?