[How to] Restart Race / Options Menu / Exit Game

Hello all,

is there a button to get into the (main) menu ? Im pressing Esc and nothing happens. I have to ALT + F4 to force exit the game and restart it if I want to:

- go to the options menu (only availiable once at each game start, after the 1st game start)

- restart a race (mid-race, I have to do this very, very often)

- exit the game

Im currently playing the first races ? I failed them dozens of times and mostly I wanted to restart the races after crashing as I was sure I would not win them.

There is no way of going into the options menu while playing the game which is frustrating.