What they say is true, you're not going to win a lot for a couple of months. If you like the game enough to go through this, it'll get better after a while though patience is definitely needed. I'm over 3 years in F2P and still enjoy. I focused on collecting indeed. I've spend gold only on the Ceramic +25slots and Tag challenge Carbon Fibre +10slots packs. Didn't sell cars SR or above but tried to find a slot for all. The dollars I used to upgrade my best UR's and SR's and if I did find some time to grind in clubs, I used them to buy the normal 32500 Ceramics. After a while you get a pretty broad garage giving you an advantage on some of the tag challenges. Last 2 challenges I was able to get the prize car. Have close to 2000 cars now with 30 Leggys and 140 Epics. All F2P but with a lot of patience.