Any way to make “scripted” / animated races?

currently working on a short film for my school, we decided to make it a racing film and to have assetto corsa clips as racing footage, since.. we aren’t racers.

one of my ideas was to hop into an ai race and race them like a normal race, but is there any way i can sorta “program” on how they race?

say it’s turn one on monza, could i somehow have it so car 20 does a dive bomb, and car 70 locks up, with car 18 making the turn, etc etc.

is there a way i can sorta make the cars turn into like actors to do what i want? /or make the ai do these things?