Occasionally, while racing, if the AI plane crashes it causes the view to switch from Chase to Orbit. Which is quite disquieting and often leads to crash or missed gate. I play on Windows/GOG Galaxy.
I have no sure way to reproduce the bug but it seems to appear after restarting the race few times.
@AndrewGarrison
Yep, this is another performance bug (knew about it from 1.4 but forgot to report it, +1 for Jukkelus). Part of the runs are ruined when this happens - seems camera change brings a small spike enough for your model to crash too