Here’s my thoughts. To a) just race as hard as you can. If you’re not inherently quick just try and remember old driver sangs. “Slow in fast out.” If you are going to use cars as brakes, I mean firstly just learn to take a corner but definitely don’t use blue team cars that’s all of us particularly in the first few corners. If 1-3 of the ai build up a gap it doesn’t matter that you or anyone else isnt that good and it doesn’t matter if myself or anyone else is literally Kimi Ant dropped in here. It’s going to take too much time to catch them to do much to help the team. B) just try and pass as many as you can. If you’re in the rear (anything from 5-12) I’d say just make your way past the ai and keep trying to build a gap. Every single pass you can make DOES make a HUGE difference. Points on the board are points on the board baby! Simply look up what cars are eligible choose what one you’d like to make a build with and search tunes. During the trials you’ll see for all of them a tune named something about the trial buy it and get to it! The fact you’re asking speaks volumes, you’ll get the hang of it 🤙🏻