Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27048832-20151111234103/@comment-27048832-20160709154118

Reymar C. posted this into another thread and aparently it worked :

going offline only removes TSM players, not TSM friends - it works for others because their TSM friends has never been loaded into their device in the first place.

what you need to do is to log-out, go to the series that you have TSM friends on, and let the device search for TSM friends (which you don't have since you are not logged in) - you have to be online obviously. once your device is done searching, it should show the list of TSM friends to beat as blank - you can then go offline to prevent your device from loading TSM players (it only starts loading them once you click on the event - which is before you pick a car).

to prevent TSM friends from appearing, just never go into any series while logged-in online.