Can’t go to track selection in multiplayer versus?

[u/DiamondFrequent7249]

I was playing CTGP-R with my roommate yesterday, and we were playing 2 player versus mode. I noticed that I was not taken to the track selection screen and that once we chose our characters, it took us straight to the race, and at that selected a random cup for us. Is this normal? How do I fix this if not?