While tricky to do on curves, this is incredibly useful on straightaways. However, this can be a risky maneuver- racers looking to receive a speed boost can be easily flipped over by held items. It is better to use this on lower-leveled CPUs than real racers, although it could decide the first lap if used at the very beginning. Drafting was originally going to be absent from Mario Kart 8 but was implimented in the game in the final version.