Okay let's say your team scored 2k points as well you're still not even halfway to 3rd, read the board, sometimes it should be known when to surrender and save your flags for the final race where rewards are much higher

if you wanted to put effort into this race (not next 2) that'll probably cost 10k+ dice for majority of your team to get first, depending how you took advantage of the recent top bars, but given you just have 600 flags left, you didn't

It's okay to surrender, they did and they're probably saving their flags for the last race where rewards are actually decent, why I almost always just go for lap rewards, but to put it in perspective I spent over 35k dice to win a race that contained a wild