Game crashes when clicking "Continue Career"

Product: EA SPORTS™ WRC
Platform:Steam-PC
Summarize your bug Game crashing when clicking "continue career" in 1.4.0
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? I guess continue a career started before the new patch
What happens when the bug occurs? Game crashes and shows the Unreal Engine crash report window
What do you expect to see? The career

Additional information: I was in the second season of my career, still in Junior WRC class. I think I was somewhere between week 25-50 of my second season. I wanted to attach my savegame to this post, but noticed there is no "Savegame" folder in C:\Users\myuser\AppData\Local\WRC  (only the "Saved" folder is present)...