Draft Masters Series Tips

Hi everyone,

New to the sub and new to iRacing in general. Been running for about a month and given that I’m a NASCAR fan among other motorsports, I’ve taken a liking to the Draft Masters series.

The big issue I’m having is that I keep getting collected in other people’s wrecks. I drive pretty conservatively and am great at drafting and keeping up with the lead pack, but someone always makes an overly aggressive move, shoves their car into a gap that doesn’t exist, and puts me in a position where I get collected in an accident despite not being at fault. This happened all but twice last week when the series was running Xfinity cars and again today in my first truck race. Is there anything I can do differently short of qualifying on pole every time? Or do I just keep doing what I’m doing and pray I’m not collected in someone else’s mess?

People in draft masters treat restrictor plate racing like they need to take the lead on lap 1 and everyone is just so aggressive rather than just being patient and making moves at opportune times. Despite how fun the series is, it can be very frustrating because it just tanks my safety rating and irating. I wish the game had a better system for determining whose at fault when those incidents happen but oh well.