slipstreamer

noun4

1. •
   Someone who follows a slipstream in a race.

   • He headed the leading group over the col, class riders every one, no wheel-suckers keeping the shade of the men doing the work. 'Never gets a tan', they say of the slipstreamers. — 1999
2. •
   (figurative) Someone who goes with the flow; someone who follows with what others are doing.
3. •
   Someone who writes slipstream fiction ("a genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries").

   • For the rest of us — slipstreamers, alpha males, difficult women, neophytes, neighbours, expats — it's down the long chute together, into a heap at the heart of a late year. — 1993
4. •
   A race in which the shape of the track causes extensive slipstreams to form behind each car.

   • Dating back to 1925, Reims was a five-mile blast along public roads. It was best known for its long main straight — the Thillois straight — which made every race into a dramatic slipstreamer. — 2001