I started with a night race and had no apparent problems. The second race was a day race and, as soon as we started free practice, sector 1 and sector 2 in Australia, the shadows completely disappeared, whether they were produced by the environment or by the car.
Then I went to another random circuit and had the same problem. As soon as I entered the first sector, all the shadows gradually disappeared. By deactivating the path tracer, the shadows reappeared in raytracing. I don't know if anyone has had this problem?