Now in the beginning you don't have to worry at all!!
First we're just going to play with the small car knowledge of all. We can keep it up for a long time that way too.
My character can't even afford on buying tuning parts, not to mention he wouldn't know what to get and what to do with them.

But I could rise you more worries by pointing out that ie. different cars need different kind of handling to drift them...

Oh well, if nothing else helps, I'm gonna find a person from the internet who would like to teach us stuff. I want to learn about cars also for real life. :d