How to Win Almost Every Time
To win almost every single time you’ll need to first get off a successful power boost. Then you’ll want to hit bubbles with the power-ups in them as soon as they show-up in the map. Avoid obstacles that slow you down, try to power-slide into turns as much as possible and keep onto the track as much as you can. If you do get passed, fire your offensive power-ups. On the flip side if you’re running in first you can just trash a power-up before you hit another bubble to see if you can get something either better or defensive to protect you from someone attacking you from behind.
When you go for bubbles, try to aim for the “!” bubbles as the power-ups don’t have to charge. You can take eight power-ups into a race with you, make sure to use your 8 most upgraded ones.
Your power-up deck needs to include at least 2 defensive power-ups (shield & cure are totally fine), something that is homing and then whatever you really prefer. There are some power-ups I find to really work well against the AI like the Lunar Gravity power-up and others like the Freeze Ray to be sort of a mild nuisance. After the power-up rebalancing it’s really up to you which power-ups you fancy.