Good morning, I experienced the absence of the starting lights twice. Both times it happened because I was in the pause menu — the lobby started, and the starting lights were missing.
Ideas
F1 24 Patch 1.18 No Starting Lights Bug
Even after 18 patches last year they still didn't even reply to my bug reports to ask for more info to investigate. Don't get me wrong, F1 25 is a phenominal improvement on F1 24, but some of these bugs shouldn't be appearing after shelling out £75