If anyone is still interested, i found a solution: Select Emerson Beltway in Easydrive, then choose Set destination and drive to event manually.
Same issue here, only with the Maserati GT MC Stradale. It seems to happen when the AI crashes, usually into my car. Quite a maddening issue as even when trying to use proper racecraft to beat them (ie. not piling into them but rather driving properly) they'll hit me and cause a CTD. And even weirder as I had done this race with other cars like the V12 Vantage with no issues.
I tried to validate the installation, tried to remove mods (during the race) and it didn't fix the issue.
Running the game on Windows 10 Pro x64, with a Core i7-4710MQ, 16 GB DDR3, GTX 880M (driver release 362.00).
I'm not expecting any answer nor any fix, the game is too old by modern standards and the devs probably moved on. But hey, maybe I'll be surprised!
EDIT: retried the race with the V12 Vantage and it crashed, so I guess it's *, yay \o/
