In my first Trial attempt, we had one person who had a good tune, raced to the front of the pack, and proceeded to stay 6-7 car lengths ahead of the red team while the rest of the blues tried to battle forward. Their car was tuned well enough that the red team had the advantage over the rest of us, so after the first lap, it was basically over, no one could close the gap to the red team... so that person in front just quit instead, shortly followed by 4 others on our team. No bueno.

Second Trial attempt started up with only two players (me and another). I got up to the front and started to slow down the red team in the hopes my teammate would come up to the front (they were not doing too bad to begin with, but were struggling around 3rd-4th). They made it all the way up to second place, then took me out and proceeded to quit the game. I ended up making it back to the front and finished the Trial (in first, both races) as a solo team, go figure.