2023 13th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - It's NITRO Burnin' Time!!!

Congratulations to '64BEL' (FBBO) and 'ocdart' for sharing the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the 2nd event of the 2023 season, the Arizona Nationals, with (let's be honest) "OK" scores of 80.0 points each.
'64BEL' picked the class winner in Funny Car. Both his Top Fuel and Pro Stock picks lost in the second round of eliminations.
'ocdart' also picked the class winner in Funny Car. His Top Fuel pick lost in the semi-finals, and his Pro Stock pick lost in the opening round of eliminations.
Both were helped with Speed bonus points in Funny Car.
'Budnicks'Nick2317' (FBBO) grabbed the runner-up spot with 74.5 points.


Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Doug Kalitta, 3.679 during qualifying
Speed - Brittany Force, 336.23 during Round 1 of eliminations

Funny Car
E.T. - Bob Tasca III, 3.898 during qualifying
Speed - Robert Hight, 330.07 during Round 2 of eliminations

Pro Stock
E.T. - Cristian Cuadra, 6.552 during qualifying; Matt Harford, 6.552 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Camrie Caruso, 210.57 during Round 1 of eliminations



Here are the game point standings after the 2nd event of the 2023 season:

173.5 - Outlawd (FBBO)
160.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO)
156.0 - Budnicks (FBBO)
153.5 - TT5.9mag (FABO)
152.0 - Yunick13 (FABO)
144.0 - cuda20 (FABO)
144.0 - memike (FABO)
144.0 - Duster79 (FABO)
138.5 - Back in Time (FABO)
120.0 - johnnycuda (FABO)
110.5 - ocdart (FABO)
101.5 - MomsDuster (FABO)
88.5 - alsant (FBBO)
80.0 - 64BEL (FBBO)
55.5 - stroked340 (FABO)

Both ''64BEL' (FBBO) and 'stroked340' (FABO) missed the opening event and played for the first time this week.
The 3rd race of the 2023 season, the Lucas Oil Winternationals, is scheduled for March 30-April 2, at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona, CA.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts at 6:00pm EDT (3:00pm PDT) on Friday, March 31.
nhra.com does not yet show a list of entries for Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock.

Pro Stock Motorcycle will not compete at this event.

Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!