Choco racing suggestions

It's been a while since this has been touched on. I think we could still use a little improvement here.
I'm aware that the team member responsible for racing was promoted to other duties but I'm not requesting any large-scale additions like new courses, just some new options/adjustments.

My primary concern is it's not possible to jump into racing with friends and have a fun race due to vastly different stats between veteran jockeys and newcomers. A chocobo which has not been grinded up has no chance against one that has.

I would like a kind of level sync option to enable competitive races no matter how much time each person has spent grinding, or otherwise an option to race only with rental chocobos which are functionally identically to each other and only differ in appearance.

With the addition of rental chocobos, might it also be possible to add chocobo racing to the duty finder so that people can play without needing to enter chocobo square at the gold saucer? Or waive the entry fee, whatever is preventing it from being in the DF. Or make the DF transport you to a cross-world battle hall like triple triad has where we can register for races.

Lastly I'd like an adjustment to the exp bonus that is received when more than one player is present in a race. Exp is worthless if we are at cap, so could this be changed to an MGP bonus? We'd still usually end up with less MGP than races against only NPCs since it's more difficult to beat players, or impossible if their chocobo is statistically superior and no sync option exists.