You get points for:
- staying on the road (when you get off the road the points counter turns red and stop)
- staying in slipstream (the points counter turns blue and goes faster)
- overtake a car after slipstreaming it (3,000)
- overtake a car without slipstreaming it (1,500)
- overtake a car touching it (750)
- overtake a bus/truck after slipstreaming it (15,000)
- overtake a bus/truck without slipstreaming it (7,500)
- overtake a bus/truck touching it (3,750)
- overtake a rival after slipstreaming it (50,000)
- overtake a rival without slipstreaming it (25,000)
- overtake a rival touching it (12,500)
- arriving at the end of a stage in less time possible (around 40k for a good run)
Try this in the first stage:
- get behind EVERY car/bus
- wait for the slipstream logo to appear
- overtake
- don't drift in the first stage, NEVER, because when you drift you don't slipstream and you get half the points from overtaking (in general don't drift when there's not a danger curve signal)
- when you arrive at the Rival you should already have around 40/50k points
- go straight without drifting (you never have to drift in the first stage, remember?)
- slipstream the Rival, take the left route and overtake the Rival (+50,000)
- cars, slipstream, overtakes, end of the first stage (+40k bonus)
- for a total around 180,000 points