Well, the devs follow people and let people follow them in the forum, so they probably would allow people to add them as a friend. But they don't usually play the game as much as players do, so...
Who needs friends when you have your hands? Well anyway, I think the player should set how many friends they want, so people who like a big community can accept everyone and people like Me or Eli can only accept the few.
After a couple days of friends, any more feedback? Friend leaderboard fun? Yes/no? We plan on adding a internal friend challenge system that will allow you to challenge specific friends on tracks that you may want to race on, your friend would receive a notification with an optional private msg.