People driving backwards

Just bought an iRacing membership. Was about to win my first race in dirt street stocks and get clobbered by someone driving the wrong way. If there’s not going to be cautions how the hell are you supposed to get you’re rating up to race actual racers? Serious question because I already regret dropping money for it, even though it is awesome besides that.

Update: Appreciate the feedback. Just had to take a break for a bit. Was just frustrating after spending hours trying to set it up and get my VR working (which I didn’t end up using btw) and see how similar the lower classes are to console gaming. But it’s too good to let that incident turn me off from the game. I’m sure there’ll be more, but I’d rather have a good racing sim.