Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 08:36 am
DRAFTYCAR – Entertainment Game Review
DRAFTYCAR is a Entertainment/Racing/Strategy game from Speedway Labs, LLC (NC), first launched in 1st July 2024.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 690+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes DRAFTYCAR Stand Out
With realistic drafting physics and dead simple controls, DRAFTYCAR puts you in the driver's seat. In career mode, manage your team's finances, climb the ranks and maintain top-notch equipment as you compete against 42 AI opponents. Download now and start honing your stock car drafting skills.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, DRAFTYCAR is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd April 2025
Recent improvements include:
Updated paint schemes
Download & Availability
DRAFTYCAR is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is really great. Especially the career mode, but we have a really cool idea. How about we add corners and tri-ovals to the game. Seriously, that would take the game to a whole new level.
This game is absolutely insane but in a good way, from the career mode all the way to the damage system is perfect, wish there was a PC/PS/XB version, Id definitely buy. Only gripe is the app crashing after ads but, as of right now its in developmental stages so its more than expected. Hats off to you for making such an incredible and fun NASCAR-like game.
We love this game sm but the ads are kinda frequent and for some reason after a few races our game would crash either that was our phone or the game it didnt matter that much but this game is amazing in each and every way its just so peak.
This is honestly pretty fun but it can use improvements, especially adding more noticeable damage and blowovers. Also we can't turn our phone to side and play game, pls read this and update thank you.
We would love to have more laps.
This game is beautiful. You just need to update.
This game is really good. Besides the ads of course. Dont have anything playing in the background or it will crash unfortunately.
All in all its a fun and good game. Our 2 complaints are it goes through spells that you try and race and soon as you get on the track it kicks you out multiple times. The minor complaint not really a complaint. We really wish it showed a points list just not where you are standing in the points.
The game is fun to play overall. The ads only make it so we play a few races and then quit. There are just too many ads. We think one every couple load screens would be better for long term growth. But to get one for every load screen is a bit much.
Career mode doesnt have a story the entire way though.
Such a great idea for a game and such a great opportunity to just let it die out.
We cant figure out how to reset the career mode, while fun the ai is easy to predict and becomes stale after playing for a little, however the career mode is really in depth and enjoyable we currently have 543,509 thousand dollars in debt and growing. Very fun game overall and we enjoy it.
Amazing game. Would play it for hours if it didnt crash every 3 minutes.
Great game but super buggy. Crashes about 50% of the time during ad transitions (theres a lot). Still enjoyable just for short times.
The game is okay, as long as you pay to remove ads, and yet we wish we wouldnt have paid for the ad free version. DRAFTYCAR is rarely updated. After launch, there was a teaser about a pitstop feature that was to be added, but that was over a year ago and no word on if it will ever actually be added. We feel like the majority of the players stopped playing because of the excessive ads, and the amount of people who paid for the ad free version was less than what the developer was hoping to have. So now we have a game that isnt worth the time or money to update.
Every time we try our career, we get almost done and blow a tire. Ive used brakes, dont turn as much, nothing works. And its killing our races. Please fix this. Its getting super annoying and unplayable. We simply request this gets fixed. If its fixed, easily a 5 star game. Please fix this.
Absolutely love the game we can see lots of potential with the game. Would be great to see the pro cup series have more races, like around 30-35 races. Also would be cool to have a AI leader board of some kind so you can have more goals for long term gameplay. Like drivers in a hall of fame that have records you can beat. Cant wait to see what else you add for in the future.
Wow. This game is reminiscent of NASCAR 2005 Chase for the Cup. And its amazing. We smiled and the race took us back to our childhood days. Truly worth more than the add free upgrade.
This game is way more fun than we ever expected. It is a mix between Ratbag, iRacing, and arcade racing. The simulated realism is super fun; of course Ill sign autographs! Ha! The letters from the race director, the customizing of your entire shop and operation, the adjustability of your car! Great job man! Thank you.
NASCAR should partner up with you to make their mobile games. This is great fun. That is not a praise we give out lightly. Its fun, simple and casual.
Great game and have loved playing it the last couple years. We need more garage space!!! We want more cars and more sponsors.
Pros: Great game for nascar fans, has the whole ecosystem. Sign sponsors, build cars, move up the leagues. Cons: Too many ads, and $10 is too much to remove them. Game also has a bug where it crashes when you start a race every once in a while, it then takes a few hours before it stops.
This one of the best games in the App Store but it suffers from one major flaw the ads. Look, we understand that you need to monetize this app and we are happy to pay. The ads run between every aspect of the game and its annoying. We get that you need to make money.. But to pay $9.99 for the removal of ads seems a bit steep. We would as well as our friends who showed us this game would jump at paying $1.99 or even $2.99 to remove ads but $9.99 is just too much. Half the time with the ads, our game crashes after running them. So that being said this game would be the easiest 5 star rating if it wasnt $9.99.
Im not one to write reviews ever, but we really hope the developer sees this. From what Ive read on past reviews you are a single man developing this game. The game itself is super fun and a really good mix of challenging and easy. The ads are a bit much and heavy but the game to us is fun enough for us to sit through a 15-30 second ad every once and awhile. The only reason this is getting posted however is because the game crashes CONSTANTLY. We load the game, watch the ad, click start race and the game crashes instantly. Ive tried it in every mode, the quick race feature (Im aware thats not what its called but we forgot the official name) in every series from the beginner to the sprint cars, and career mode. Ive deleted the career mode multiple times to try and resolve this issue and it will not fix it. Ive deleted and reinstalled the game four times now and it still hasnt resolved the issue. Ive searched Google for apps crashing and have tried a few things from powering down the phone and changing some settings. Im not going to completely reboot our phone for a game. Id really like the developer(s) if applicable to see this and reach out to us and maybe you know of a solution for us. If the team can get this issue figured out Id be more than happy to redownload the game and continue playing and we will rewrite a review with a more positive one. Again to reiterate what Ive said, game is extremely fun and relatively addicting, ads arent horrible but could be cut back some, but the crashing issue needs to be fixed.
Unfortunately we cant recommend the game when it crashes about 25% of the time you load into a race (which then makes you watch an ad to enter back into career mode) sometimes there are seemingly crashes that cant be avoided and the only way to restart is you guessed it. MORE ADS. We were open to sitting through a couple ads we understand. But it is genuinely unbearable.
Amazing game weather you want to quick race or grind career mode. Only suggestion is being able to run a half or 1/4 season in career mode to progress faster.
The game is pretty good, but if they add like you start from Bandeross and whatever series, you can call it in our opinion, it would be better.
Very good game. We have a couple of suggestions that we think should be added to the game. You should add the number of wins each individual car/chassis has. Also, we think you should be able to retire a car/chassis to a showroom in the game as like a trophy after youre done using it and move on to the next series in the game.
The game is amazing and we went ahead and spent the $10 to get the ad free which was worth it. We havent seen any bugs and the game awesome. The Only thing is we wish the draft was a little less powerful so guys dont get LAUNCHED from 43 to first. But Amazing game.
Finally! A stock car racing game thats engaging, and has a talented developer that is genuinely invested in their game. A breath of fresh air. Get the ad-free, its so worth it.
Incredible game! We absolutely love it. We must be missing something but how do you get the upper series vehicles. Do you need to finish the season.
Our review is that our game is crashing every time we race and we cant race even 1 second and still our game crash can you please fix it please.
There is no reset career button.
Title says it all. Constant crashing and ads. We are soft locked and cant play the game without it immediately crashing (we have played for less than an hour, which is quite ridiculous). Fun game otherwise.
We got this game not expecting much, but with all the features we got addicted. It is the only game where we can manage a team, have set-up adjustments among other things, manage money, and have great racing. Also, theres no unnecessary coin systems or in app purchases. Im surprised NASCAR hasnt made a game like this because if they did, it would make bank. In fact, this is the only game Ive ever bought no ads for. Its incredible. Please try it.
Lots of fun, difficult at time, easy at times. Wish there was a bit more randomness & unpredictability to which lines were gonna move. Bug note, on IPAD, when winning top level Cup championship, you cant read the congratulatory letter fully and exit it. No way to scroll down. Have to force close the app and reboot in the off season. Then you dont get to read results of lower level series letter from season end.
It keeps telling us it will be weeks before we can drive again and wont let us. Either a little harsh or terrible game. Im guessing its some sort of glitch.
Some thing keeps popping up that keeps ruining our races and it happens at the worst moments it says give console command and it stops our driving.
Best racing app ever! Its like a good NASCAR Heat mobile version.
This game is amazing but we have a few suggestions for features, make the drivers table visible and let you see all your results for the races youve had that season.
The brake & camera buttons overlap with the steering buttons and it makes it incredibly difficult to play even on our larger iPad screen. This is literally the only thing keeping us from playing this more often as its really difficult to press the correct button while in a race and has led to multiple accidents and close calls. And just an extra personal taste critique, we would enjoy having actual noticeable turns and differences on the track(s). Obviously this one is much more a us thing but its still a suggestion that we think could help the game. But idk, maybe thats just our want for any good fully fledged non dirt track game (seriously theres so many good dirt games and 0 asphalt equivalents).
Game WAS good. The ads are painful. We know they pay the bills but there is more time waiting for ads than gameplay. Now the game is unplayable. As soon as you start the race it crashes.
So dont get us wrong we love the game. Here lately though everytime we have tried to race the game will crash as soon as we get into the race. Theres nothing we can do about it. It crashes every time.
Would be nice to see the point standings.
Ads ruin this game. Every race you have 1-2 ads that you cannot skip without paying. We understand the need for ads but Id play the game significantly more if we could play without ads ever 2 minutes.
Bryan (DRAFTYCAR Creator) is super transparent with users about any problems or changes to be made. DRAFTYCAR is a great time killer and is still in its early stages. Runs great on iOS even at max texture settings.
Dont get us wrong this game is great but the Arca drivers race like the real Arca guys (not a good thing)and we get caught up in wrecks that arent our fault and repairs take all our money then we cant afford to go to the track and we cant get a loan because Ill never have enough money to pay it off due to crashes.
This is exactly what your life has been missing. Let chaos reign.
If this game is ever to be taken seriously, it cant have ads every 25 seconds of gameplayyou cant be like every other scammy game out there. Let us pay a couple bucks to play the game and ACTUALLY play it without ads EVERY MINUTE! Its too much. It has a lot of potentialbut why are mobile games all this much of a joke with ads? Its game breaking and unplayable.
As someone who isnt really into motorsports, we find this to be an incredibly fun game. The only real downside that keeps us from putting in more time is that we feel we spend as much time watching ads as actually playing. We know money has to be made, but we would be willing to drop a few bucks to get an ad free version of this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.7.9
- Size: 488.75 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Speedway Labs, LLC (NC)
Last updated: 23rd April 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Racing | Developer: Speedway Labs, LLC (NC)