Is there a way to turn off seeing Xbox friends in career?

Im really enjoying slowly ticking off every championship in career and upping the AI skill as I get better etc.

But I find it really weird seeing my few Xbox friends always in the top 3 for each championship. I know they don’t even have/play Forza, and I’m bored of seeing their name every race. Ironically, it’s less immersive than it just being random xbox avatars taken from players currently playing worldwide.

Is there a way to toggle off ‘Show your xbox friends as rivals’? Can’t find it!

play your career offline.

What wheely2 suggested.

Forza always tries to sync online to download updates to Drivatars, which use your friends list to name the opponents. If you completely disconnect your xbox from the internet, then Forza will fall back to the original AI names from previous games in the series.

Weird, that doesn’t happen when I play offline. It replaces the names of my friendlist with other gamertags.
Either way it it is still what the OP is looking for.