Extremely disappointed to find myself back here again reporting the same issue 4 MONTHS later. Took a break to let the game smooth out only to return to see the the same, simple issue I brought up 4 ...
Ideas
If you start a career mode with Paul Aron as your number 1 driver he will keep the number 17 which shouldn't even be able to be applied to an F1 car because of it being retired which also makes me feel like this is a glitch/bug. Surely formula 1 themselve arent thrilled about an offically licensed game allowing players to use a number they had retired in respect of a driver who passed away, considering they didn't allow that in past titles. Furthermore while speaking on past titles this issues never seemingly came up as drivers promoted to a seat in F1 games prior were assigned a random number not currently in use (excluding retired numbers like the previously mentioned #17)