Haven't played in a long time. Tried multiplayer. Did about three laps... then it suddenly went into "auto driving". I was left sitting watching the car drive itself around watching some 5 minute timer count down. At end of timer it just kept driving. Then this "you have been removed" appeared. I could NOT CLICK on the CONTINUE button in UI while sitting watching the car drive itself. No information. No help. Couldn't do anything. No idea what's going on.
Sometimes when someone leaves it can happen. Annoying bug, but nothing gamebreaking, tho. Mostly you can use press ESC and go to Pits. Unless you can't, so if you have enough time in P or Q just terminate the game, boot it and rejoin.
Yeah the game does this sometimes...I alt tab out... Close the game and then reload. I find more annoying is a not full lobby not allowing joining as "too many players".