By drafting off Heras, Armstrong saves energy and puts himself in position for the best finish.
Everyone is hoping to draft off the attention generated by Patrick, 27, the first woman to win an IndyCar race, who is easing into Nascar.
On many occasions, our internal discussions at RotoWire concluded with a statement along the lines of "we want to draft off next year's cheat sheet".
Then spreading, multiplying, sharing maps and road conditions, accident alerts and traffic updates; moving in packs, drafting off one another to save fuel, dropping off passengers and picking them up, just as Brin had imagined.
Kelly Kahl, CBS's top scheduler, knows the business has changed vastly, but he emphasized how important it was for a new show to be able to draft off the audience provided by its lead-in show.
The fish-out-of-water program, which has its premiere next Saturday on the Fox Reality Channel, aims to draft off Bravo's "Real Housewives" franchise, which has turned into an unlikely cultural phenomenon.
If he had more spring in his stride as he negotiated the four laps of the Hyde Park course, it might have been because he and his brother were able to conserve energy on the 43-kilometer cycling leg by drafting off a third Briton, Stuart Hayes, who acted like a domestique and rode gamely into a headwind.
What if Steve's real talent was in drafting off the incompetence of his competitors?
Apple is drafting off Android's success these days, having out waited the carriers.
