I see they're on autopilot for this tour, very meager selection of new drivers and tracks. I did one pull and got a Metal Mario plus a couple of drivers I was missing like Toad and Wario, but I think this is a safe tour to save up on.
Also, I like the extra cups, and doling them out one per day is good to keep the content feeling daily rather than sporadic, even if it it makes skip tickets less useful since you have to spend more now. Not sure what I think about the difficulty increase for newcomers though. Hopefully the addition of the extra cups will offset the fact that new players mayhave a tough time getting 5 stars even early on?
(Also the time trial didn't give me too much trouble, I just turned on manual drift and used both mushrooms to skip that long stretch of desert on the right on one lap.)