Win10, running on a Win GPD 1:
I also tested on my normal PC (also Win10) and it works fine.
Ok so crash is limited to your Win GPD 1 - is the carts folder correctly set?
Load title cart, type: ls - it should list all other virtua racing carts. If not, it means your pico8 config.txt is not pointing at the right location.
Thanks, setting root_path in config.txt fixed the issue.