F1 25 Imola race bug in 2P career - Grid glitch, AI frozen, forced formation lap
My friend and I are doing a full season 2 player career. Everything worked fine until we reached Imola. Practice and qualifying went perfectly, but when we got to the race, everything broke.
At the starting grid cutscene, all the grid positions just showed zeros - no drivers, no names. Then, in the next cutscene that normally shows the grid, all we could see was the gray sky - no cars, no track, nothing.
When the race finally loaded, the grid order was completely wrong. I had qualified first, but the actual grid had drivers grouped by teams - for example both McLarens in 3rd and 4th, both Ferraris in 5th and 6th, and so on. My friend wasn't even on the grid - he was placed in the middle of the track, right after the pit exit.
Even though we had formation lap turned off, the game still forced to do one. Only the two of us could move - the AI cars stayed stuck on the starting grid. We couldn't return to our grid positions. Instead, we got teleported to the finish line, where we couldn't move, and the UI told us our grid stop was still 500-900 meters away (different number at the two of us).
We waited for about 2 minutes, and then, somehow, the race started. We managed to drive maybe 500 meters before we got disconnected from the session. Every time we try to restart the race (even if we restart the game), the same bug happens.
I've put 2 links as evidence below.
Video of bugged cutscenes and formation lap
Picture of error code after getting kicked out