infinite pausing

[jac.b]

While playing my game will randomly freeze for a very short time and go into the pause menu. after this happens every button I press either unpauses or pauses the game. the only way to get it to stop is to restart my game. happens every 2-5 races before I have to restart.

how do I fix this

[teeds]

I think the escape key will do this, have you possibly mapped that key to your controller or something similar?