So I'll be doing my first Crit on Sunday and I'm a little anxious, nervous, etc... Not so much about riding with a group as I've done in the past. I'm thinking about strategy for the course. I know it's my first race and my main goal it to just finish, but who doesn't want to pull in a win.

Thanks to carpediemracing's helmet cam of the Bethel Race Series course which I've been studying. Not having raced before it makes me wonder what a good strategy would be.
From the helmet cam I can tell the course starts and take a hard right to a slight downhill with swooping right hand corner, straightens out, into another right, decent straight away that starts to incline into a long constant radius long almost 170deg swooping right turn, into a tighter left hand and a straight uphill to the finish. 15 laps, ~13mi.

I'm more interested in finishing and not getting caught up in someone else's mishap. Although I'd like to finish strong as well. So do I go hard off the line line taking advantage of the decent and try to hang on up front with the top ten or should I take it easy off the line blend in with the group conserve energy and use the incline near the finish to make an attack??

I'm open to suggestions for my first time out. Thanks in advance.