This is well written but it left me feeling confused. Is it by runner means race car driver? And there are people hanging in the air and if their team loses they die? did i understand that right?

I don’t like to spell everything out in bold for readers, but yes. The losing driver’s “patron” dies at the end of the race.

Interesting sci-fi/futuristic take on “I am a Runner”. I did find that the “Sympathy has …” sentence was overly complicated and slowed the pace of the story.

Definitely confusing, but not too much so by the end. You have to just sort of go with it and let your mind wander all the way through. Grim idea of post-apocalyptic life.

In the space allotted it’s more than a little challenging to set the stage for a post apocalyptic race car tale of deliverance. I attempted to hint at many things in somewhat ambiguous terms in order to give readers some hints to assemble the scene for themselves. Wandering is a good word to describe this as we are bystanders in the Runner’s mind as he thinks about his lot in life while circling the track.

I do really like the world you’ve built, and I do completely understand the limitations of the character limit. But I did have to go back and try to piece together what you were saying.