It seems to take the game forever to save and load.
It froze on Saving the game and it doesn’t seem to be loading now. 
I suffer this evil to get around, let offline
I have noticed it taking an exceptionally long time to save after changing the paint scheme of cars.
I did do a hard reset and the long loading times were reduced. I’ve read that it’s not working for some people.
I have been noticing that I’m DCing from online after 1 or 2 races in co op. Might be my ISP though.