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It has nothing to do with the patch or any drivers you might have
installed.  When you first enter a race weekend, you'll see the mouse
cursor flashing to the busy state while the AI car textures are being
loaded.  On some systems this may take a short time, so if you happen to
enter the track to drive before it completes you'll get the blank cars.
If you pop back out to the weekend screen and then get back into the car
to drive you'll get all of the textures loaded properly.  To prevent it,
wait a few seconds for the mouse cursor to settle before you click the
green button to drive.

- Eric

Thank you very much Eric. I'll try being more patient before jumping in the
car. By the way...can this time vary from day to day or should it be approx the
same time frame? The reason I ask is that it doesn't happen every session.
Thanks,
Dan

I think it would depend on how many cars you have files for.  For RASCAR
races, it will probably take a lot longer than if you were to join a
pickup race full of people you don't know.

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No of cars in field, and connection quality can both affect this time...
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