2025 15th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - I Can't Wait!!!

That blind squirrel is busy early this year!
'ocdart' (FABO) somehow managed to come out on top with the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the 2025 season-opening 56th annual Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals with a total of 160.5 points. He picked the class winners in both Top Fuel and Pro Stock, his Pro Stock Motorcycle pick lost in the final round of eliminations, and his Funny Car picks lost in the second round of eliminations. He was also helped with ET bonus points in Top Fuel and Speed bonus points in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
'Budnicks' (FBBO) was right behind with 160.0 points.
Way to go!

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

Top Fuel
E.T. - Antron Brown, 3.673 during the final round of eliminations
Speed - Shawn Langdon, 335.23 during qualifying

Funny Car
E.T. - Jack Beckman, 3.832 during qualifying
Speed - Ron Capps, 335.73 during qualifying

Pro Stock
E.T. - Greg Anderson, 6.443 (new National Record) during qualifying
Speed - Greg Stanfield, 212.96 during qualifying

Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Gaige Herrera, 6.670 during qualifying
Speed - Matt Smith, 203.98 during qualifying

Here are the game point standings after the 1st event of the 2025 season:
160.5 - ocdart (FABO)
160.0 - Budnicks (FBBO)
154.0 - alsant (FBBO)
129.5 - TT5.9mag (FABO)
123.5 - stroked340 (FABO)
119.5 - 64BEL (FBBO)
102.0 - GTXDAN (FBBO)
102.0 - johnnycuda (FABO)
87.5 - Back in Time (FABO)
81.0 - Outlawd (FBBO)
71.5 - MomsDuster (FABO)
69.5 - Yunick13 (FABO)
63.5 - cuda20 (FABO)
62.5 - memike (FABO)
50.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO)

The rest of the 2025 NHRA season and lots of racing to go.

Now we get a couple of weeks off from racing to study our picks before the 2nd race of the season. The 40th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals at Firebird Motorsports Park in Chandler, AZ, is scheduled for March 21-23.
nhra.com currently shows the following class entry numbers:

13 - Top Fuel
16 - Funny Car
18 - Pro Stock

Pro Stock Motocycle will not compete again until the Four-Wide Nationals at zMax Dragway in North Carolina

As always, please check to verify your picks are participating before posting your picks.
GOOD LUCK!