Info Required Driver Swap Bugs MEGATHREAD (Part 1)
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Further information and reports are needed to assist development with a fix
aussichicken
New member
Hi,
we had an issue in our race yesterday.
Race: 6h of Monza
Date: 03.01.2026
Time Slot: 10:00 (local), 09:00 UTC
Team: 7 Hills Racing
Drivers: M. May/ D. Huhn
Issue:
We got a 10s time penalty in the warm-up phase due to erractic driving, cause the guys in front slamed onto the breaks (Maybe you should consider to deactivate penalties on the first 300 meters when everybody lines up).
At the end of our first stint, we served the penalty, refueled and swap drivers. Cause of the time penalty, there was no clear indication, how long the pit stop was predicted, so we didn't know when we get released.
After we left the pit, the time penalty was still there. So we had to serve it again at the next stop with the same problems again. Only at the last of our 7 stops, we didn't had to serve a penalty.
In race engineer mode there was also no indication for the penalty, only the driver could see.
Thank you very much for looking into it and thank you very much for a game, that makes a lot of fun (apart from this issue).
Cheers
Dominik
we had an issue in our race yesterday.
Race: 6h of Monza
Date: 03.01.2026
Time Slot: 10:00 (local), 09:00 UTC
Team: 7 Hills Racing
Drivers: M. May/ D. Huhn
Issue:
We got a 10s time penalty in the warm-up phase due to erractic driving, cause the guys in front slamed onto the breaks (Maybe you should consider to deactivate penalties on the first 300 meters when everybody lines up).
At the end of our first stint, we served the penalty, refueled and swap drivers. Cause of the time penalty, there was no clear indication, how long the pit stop was predicted, so we didn't know when we get released.
After we left the pit, the time penalty was still there. So we had to serve it again at the next stop with the same problems again. Only at the last of our 7 stops, we didn't had to serve a penalty.
In race engineer mode there was also no indication for the penalty, only the driver could see.
Thank you very much for looking into it and thank you very much for a game, that makes a lot of fun (apart from this issue).
Cheers
Dominik
legacyradiogaming
Member
Race: 6h of QATAR
Date: 03.27.2025
Time Slot: 6 AM PST START
Team : TEAM LRG LMH ALPHA
I started the race & did a double, Pitted us in p6. Our second driver got in who also performed the engineering for me when I pitted, Got into the car. The car immiedetly was undrivable, It was like the 0% tire percentage glitch all over again. He was only able to complete 1 lap 4 minutes long going so slow, Yet all 4 tires ( 2 hards on left 2 meds on right ) burned down to 70 % EXACTLY all the same.
Very next week, I try to recover some rating in the WEC Xperience on sebring, I pit in the top 3, I try to exit pit lane to resume race, My wheel is no longer functioning. This is the VERY first time this has EVER happened to me, This is skewing results so much your game is not AT all ready for any form of competition at all.
SPLIT 2 / 4 :
Date: 03.27.2025
Time Slot: 6 AM PST START
Team : TEAM LRG LMH ALPHA
I started the race & did a double, Pitted us in p6. Our second driver got in who also performed the engineering for me when I pitted, Got into the car. The car immiedetly was undrivable, It was like the 0% tire percentage glitch all over again. He was only able to complete 1 lap 4 minutes long going so slow, Yet all 4 tires ( 2 hards on left 2 meds on right ) burned down to 70 % EXACTLY all the same.
Very next week, I try to recover some rating in the WEC Xperience on sebring, I pit in the top 3, I try to exit pit lane to resume race, My wheel is no longer functioning. This is the VERY first time this has EVER happened to me, This is skewing results so much your game is not AT all ready for any form of competition at all.
SPLIT 2 / 4 :
Fakmachine
New member
Hi,
During the 6 hours of Monza, we were in Hypercar and a team member joined the lobby after the race start. Then because he got the engineer role it changed all the setup changes you can do in a pitstop to whatever the default setup is.
Example; I loaded the setup and did the race start/quali. It had 6 as the rear wing setting. Then once my teammate took over it had reset to 5, which is the default setup.
Obviously this made the car very difficult and twitchy to drive in fast corners. Every time someone left the lobby and then rejoined the settings reset to 5 rear wing, and we had to make sure it was set at 6 before the stop.
During the 6 hours of Monza, we were in Hypercar and a team member joined the lobby after the race start. Then because he got the engineer role it changed all the setup changes you can do in a pitstop to whatever the default setup is.
Example; I loaded the setup and did the race start/quali. It had 6 as the rear wing setting. Then once my teammate took over it had reset to 5, which is the default setup.
Obviously this made the car very difficult and twitchy to drive in fast corners. Every time someone left the lobby and then rejoined the settings reset to 5 rear wing, and we had to make sure it was set at 6 before the stop.
legacyradiogaming
Member
This happened to us in QATAR also if you read my above report. I loaded the setup, I qualied & started the race. Pitted us in P6 after a double stint & when I came into the pit stop, Phil our second driver did all the engineering stuff to set the pit stop up. When he got in the car, It was entirely undrivable, I mean it wouldn't even turn or not just spin in circles at low speed like the 0% tire glitch again, He could barely complete 1 lap that took over 4 minutes to do, Yet all 4 tires including 2 hard tires on the left, ALL burned down to 70 % exactly evenly. I sent him the setup, He tried to put the setup in the folder for QATAR like you would do, Yet it would not show up in his setup folder. We figured as long as I started the race & loaded the setup onto the car, We would be fine. Like in Iracing, When 1 driver loads the setup onto the car, Its just ON the car period. All these types of bugs & glitches just seem so amateurish. I mean, Anytime you tab out of game or not even for any real reason, You FFB will just be gone & have to reset it CONSTANTLY. Have they fixed that ? no, Just add a reset button.
What other sim has an option in settings to force your wheel to not turn off ? I mean I want you all to think of the ideocracy of that for a second here. WHY would I need an option to NOT turn my wheel off when im PLAYING A SIM RACING GAME. Again, More issues that have been around since Rfactor2, Instead of fix it, Just put some option in settings to not turn your wheel off, Which doesn't work BTW.
We had to DNF ourselves as we where a massive danger to everybody else on the track. Completely ruined our race, No idea how this company is still stead fast rushing toward the Virtual WEC qualifiers when the game barely functions still when it comes to enduro racing / team racing.
When your wheel can just randomly disconnect at any given pit stop, Or some setup bug / glitch like this can happen and ruin so much invested time & effort, I just don't see it being a good idea. Apparently this has all been a known issue since Rfactor2, So why is it still a problem ?
riko_special
Member
Gara: 4h di PORTIMAO
Data: 01.11.2026
Fascia oraria: 14:00 UTC (15:00 ORA LOCALE)
Squadra: CESKO OMARE TEAM
Same thing for me, after taking control of the car I no longer had the HUD. Also, at the next pit, my teammate takes control of the car but remains on the leaderboard screen or in the replay and can't drive.
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Race: 4h of SPA
Date: 17.01.2026
Time Slot: 16:00 (local), 09:00 PM, UTC
Team: No Brakes Motorsport
Drivers: A. URIE/ D. 117
So I was doing my stint and when the time came to do the driver swap my co-driver was unable to hop on the car. It said that there was no vehicle available for him.
I think it was due to the fact that he changed his name for D. Saint Germain after being registered for the event, so the game was not able to recongnize him as the second pilot even if he was in the event. It might be an edge case that can be checked by the devs
Date: 17.01.2026
Time Slot: 16:00 (local), 09:00 PM, UTC
Team: No Brakes Motorsport
Drivers: A. URIE/ D. 117
So I was doing my stint and when the time came to do the driver swap my co-driver was unable to hop on the car. It said that there was no vehicle available for him.
I think it was due to the fact that he changed his name for D. Saint Germain after being registered for the event, so the game was not able to recongnize him as the second pilot even if he was in the event. It might be an edge case that can be checked by the devs
Race: 4h of SPA
Date: 2026-01-17
Time Slot: 22:00 (local), 21:00 UTC
Team: Sprintking motorsports
Affected Driver: M. Gustafsson
One of our drivers, out of 4 drivers, could not see p1 hypercar while spectating/driving in our race. The hyper didn't show on track, in relative nor on the minimap. He was issued a blue flag the last time the hyper passed but on previous passes we don't think he was issued any blue flag.
Date: 2026-01-17
Time Slot: 22:00 (local), 21:00 UTC
Team: Sprintking motorsports
Affected Driver: M. Gustafsson
One of our drivers, out of 4 drivers, could not see p1 hypercar while spectating/driving in our race. The hyper didn't show on track, in relative nor on the minimap. He was issued a blue flag the last time the hyper passed but on previous passes we don't think he was issued any blue flag.
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FireSource
New member
Race: 4h of Interlagos
Date: 2026-01-31
Time Slot: 15:00 (local), 14:00 UTC
Team: Team 420 Motorsport 420NL
Affected Driver: W. Hulshof & F. Visser
Engineering role desync with actual car setup.
At multiple points in the race (at least 3 seperate times) we set up fuel from engineering side, but fuel doesn't get set.
One time F. Visser set it up for me, I didn't see a change and had to change it manually.
The other two times we didn't notice on the driver side, and the car just didn't get refueled.
Date: 2026-01-31
Time Slot: 15:00 (local), 14:00 UTC
Team: Team 420 Motorsport 420NL
Affected Driver: W. Hulshof & F. Visser
Engineering role desync with actual car setup.
At multiple points in the race (at least 3 seperate times) we set up fuel from engineering side, but fuel doesn't get set.
One time F. Visser set it up for me, I didn't see a change and had to change it manually.
The other two times we didn't notice on the driver side, and the car just didn't get refueled.
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Race: 4h of Interlagos
Time Slot: 15:00 (local), 14:00 UTC
Team: Feegood Racing - FGR
Affected Driver: G.Mascitto O.Michalak
Driver change, tires, and ratio were all set by the second driver. The correct driver is displayed in the MFD. As soon as the car comes to a stop in the pits, the driver's name briefly switches to the current driver and then back to the new driver without a driver change. I've tried pitting three times... no luck. The same problem occurred the previous evening with a different teammate.
Time Slot: 15:00 (local), 14:00 UTC
Team: Feegood Racing - FGR
Affected Driver: G.Mascitto O.Michalak
Driver change, tires, and ratio were all set by the second driver. The correct driver is displayed in the MFD. As soon as the car comes to a stop in the pits, the driver's name briefly switches to the current driver and then back to the new driver without a driver change. I've tried pitting three times... no luck. The same problem occurred the previous evening with a different teammate.
Hey I think i might have the same problem with you as well, where we're registered as drivers and engineers but when we're spectating we do not have access to the Pitstop settings and even though our name is selected in the driver swap we it's our turn to takeover the button does not appear.
HeyItsNoodles
New member
Race: 6h of Silverstone (Co-Op)
Date: 02/01/2026
Time Slot: N/A (Co-Op)
Issue:
Buddy and I are doing a co-op race and I gave him the car with what was supposed to be a 95-second pit stop. He was able to drive off immediately after getting in the car with fresh tires, full gas, and full repairs. So we essentially are getting a full service with what is basically a drive-through lol. We started sitting in the pits for the time the pit stop was supposed to take
Date: 02/01/2026
Time Slot: N/A (Co-Op)
Issue:
Buddy and I are doing a co-op race and I gave him the car with what was supposed to be a 95-second pit stop. He was able to drive off immediately after getting in the car with fresh tires, full gas, and full repairs. So we essentially are getting a full service with what is basically a drive-through lol. We started sitting in the pits for the time the pit stop was supposed to take
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Daniel Connan
New member
Hello, I want to post this issue not really related to driver swap but more on engineer mode, sorry if it's not the good place.
The problem occurred during the team championship at Spa on February 7th.
After a crash, me (as enginer not driver) and the other enginer and the driver can't select reparation in the enginer or MFD menu.
The driver can see the damage to the car, but I, as a enginer, cannot see it.
To resolve this issue, my teammate and I had to leave the game, and after that, the driver's multifunction screen was unlocked and the driver was able to select the repair.
You can check on my video on the followinf link starting at 36:09.
The problem occurred during the team championship at Spa on February 7th.
After a crash, me (as enginer not driver) and the other enginer and the driver can't select reparation in the enginer or MFD menu.
The driver can see the damage to the car, but I, as a enginer, cannot see it.
To resolve this issue, my teammate and I had to leave the game, and after that, the driver's multifunction screen was unlocked and the driver was able to select the repair.
You can check on my video on the followinf link starting at 36:09.
Race: 4h of Bahrain Outer
Date: 13.2.2026
Time Slot: 14:00 UTC
Team: TeamRGPL
Affected Driver: T.Kutka
During swap we didnt change tires, and left tire heat more until it lock up and i spun and slighty hit the wall. After that hit left tire was good but right tire start heat. It has 265 kpa after 30 laps. Next stint was good with no bug.
Link to stream:
Date: 13.2.2026
Time Slot: 14:00 UTC
Team: TeamRGPL
Affected Driver: T.Kutka
During swap we didnt change tires, and left tire heat more until it lock up and i spun and slighty hit the wall. After that hit left tire was good but right tire start heat. It has 265 kpa after 30 laps. Next stint was good with no bug.
Link to stream:
