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

[Budnicks]

Thanks to a little weather intervention by "Mother Nature", 'ocdart' (FABO) managed to have the highest score for the 2025 season-opening NHRA Gatornationals Top Qualifier title with a total of 30.5 bonus points. He picked the #1 qualifiers in both Top Fuel and Funny Car, the #2 qualifier in Pro Stock Motorcycle and the #3 qualifier in Pro Stock.
'TT5.9mag' (FABO) was right behind with 29.5 bonus points.
The top FBBO qualifier was 'Outlawd' with 26.0 bonus points.

More great picks!

We have 15 players to start the season this week and 14 different driver combos made up of:
* 5 different Top Fuel drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of two head-to-head matchups in Round 2 if all four drivers survive Round 1.
* 5 different Funny Car drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of one head-to-head matchup in Round 2 if both drivers survive Round 1. One Funny Car driver pick did not qualify for Sunday eliminations.
* 4 different Pro Stock drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of one head-to-head matchup in Round 2 if both drivers survive Round 1.
* 2 different Pro Stock Motorcycle drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. The only possibility of a head-to-head matchup would be in the final round of eliminations if both drivers survive through the first three rounds of eliminations.

Good luck all!

Congrats @ocdart top qualifier

 

[Budnicks]

Nice Job OC and Bud !!

1st race I'm going on the blind squirrel theory
yea ha !! 0.5 point back in #2

I'd done better "IF"
3 picks in the finals & 2 winners, 1 runner up
sort of surprised P/S Greg Anderson blew of the tires in the final
KB Titan team still won

JFR Jack Beckman also did well, should have figured that one too
lost in finals IIRC

yeah F/C Austin Prock/Jimmy Prock Crew Chief & family sort of surprised me
shocked really, not being able to get down the track,
& the breakage set them back
grenade'd that rear end, only Top Fuels cars were doing that prior

 

[64BEL]

Nice qualifying, Outlawd! And congrats oc and Bud!

 

[GTXDAN]

This came down to who did the best job of reading the track. The Force camp failed on this except for fast Jacks team. Gave everybody a wake up call at the first race.

 

[ocdart]

Announcement on nhra.com today that Robert Hight has stepped down as President of JFR saying, "...being out of the car last year made me realize there are other things I want to do, especially with my wife, Leslie, and my family."

 

[GTXDAN]

Hmmmm !

 

[ocdart]

It's time for the 'Tuesday before the race' notice for the 40th annual Arizona Nationals, March 21-23, at Firebird Motorsports Park in Chandler, AZ.
Please post your picks before Pro Stock and Nitro qualifying starts so you will be eligible for all event bonus points. The first of the scheduled four rounds of Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 5:00pm EDT (2:00pm PDT) on Friday.
As of this morning nhra.com currently shows the following entries:
15 Top Fuel
20 Funny Car
22 Pro Stock

Pro Stock Motorcycle will not compete at this event.

Check to make sure your drivers are racing since there has been some last minute changes.
Keep your fingers crossed because the weekend weather forecast shows:
* Friday should be sunny with a high of 81F
* Saturday shows a high of 84F
* Sunday shows a high of 86F

The current television schedule for the Arizona Nationals...
* Qualifying Show 1: 8:00-9:30pm EST (5:00-6:00pm PST), Saturday, March 21 on FS1
* Qualifying Show 2: Noon-1:30pm EDT (9:00-10:30am PDT), Sunday, March 23 on FS1
* Final eliminations: 6:30-9:30pm EDT (3:30-6:30pm PDT), Sunday, March 23 on FS1

All television coverage will also re-air at later times. Check www.nhra.com.

Don't miss out!

 

[Budnicks]

I'll stick with my locked in picks for now...

 

[Outlawd]

Arizona nats

TF=Doug Kalitta
FC=Fast Jack
PS=Erica Enders

Good luck everybody!

 

[alsant]

Stick with my locked in picks