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2023 13th Annual FABO/FBBO 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!
 
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
LOL - I can't even lock down last place by skipping the first week - looks like I screwed up in reverse!:lol:

I was glad to see Camrie win her first race. She seems like a real sweetheart of a kid.
 
Here's your Tuesday before the event reminder for the 3rd race of the 2023 NHRA season, the NHRA Winternationals at In-N-Out Burger Dragstrip in Pomona.

nhra.com still has not posted the professional entry list for the weekend. What's up with that? Did someone forget to post the info or do we have short fields they don't want us to know about?
Qualifying will be almost over before we see any television coverage. Television coverage is scheduled for:

  • Saturday, April 1 - Q show 1 @ 7:00pm EST (4:00pm PST) on Fox Sports 1
  • Sunday, April 2 - Q show 2 @ 12:30pm EDT (9:30am PDT) on Fox Sports 1
  • Sunday, April 2 - Finals eliminations at 7:00pm EDT (4:00pm PDT) on Fox Sports 1
The current weather forecast for Pomona:
  • Friday: 63F high and mostly sunny
  • Saturday: 68F high and sunny
  • Sunday: 67F high and sunny
Good luck all!
 
Nice picks @64BEL :thumbsup:
& @ocdart

I'll take a runner-up spot any day/any race
I'm in 3rd now, who'd have ever thunk it... :lol:
 
Sticking with my locked-in picks for now...

good luck to everyone else
 
Pomona Ill go with
TF Steve Torrence
FC Matt Hagan
PS Greg Andersen
 
I'll go with

Mike Salinas
Robert Hight
Camrie Caruso (why not?!)

Good luck guys!
 
S Torrence
R Hight
C Caruso

Might as well join the group , only place to go is down !

Good luck guys !!!
 
Finally a Winternationals professional entry list on nhra.com...
  • 14 Top Fuel
  • 18 Funny Car
  • 19 Pro Stock
Check and make sure your driver picks are entered.
 
Winternationals qualifying leaders:

Q1
Weather: n/a
TF: Brittany Force, 3.712; Mike Salinas @ 334.40
FC: Cruz Pedregon, 3.865; Alexis DeJoria @ 333.49
PS: Camrie Caruso, 6.518 @ 211.79

Q2
Weather: 61F, 49% relative humidity, barometer 30.15, adjusted altitude 1,432', track temp 103F
TF: Brittany Force, 3.712; Mike Salinas @ 334.40
FC: Cruz Pedregon, 3.865; Alexis DeJoria @ 333.49
PS: Camrie Caruso, 6.518 @ 211.79

Q3
Weather: 70F, 27% relative humidity, barometer 30.02, adjusted altitude 1,986', track temp n/a

TF: Justin Ashley, 3.707; Mike Salinas @ 334.40
FC: Cruz Pedregon, 3.865; Alexis DeJoria @ 333.49
PS: Camrie Caruso, 6.518 @ 211.79
 
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O-fer to start out again :BangHead:
we'll see if they can qualify & actually race better...

1st airing of it is like 4:00pm PST,
then again rd 2 qual. & the race on tomorrow
NHRA on cable TV sucks
 
Congratulations to '64BEL' (FBBO) for winning the 2023 3rd event of the season NHRA Winternationals Top Qualifier title with a very nice total of 21.0 bonus points. He picked the #1 qualifier in Pro Stock, the #3 qualifier in Funny Car and the #5 qualifier in Top Fuel. Way to go!
'alsant' (FBBO) was right behind with 20.5 bonus points.
'TT5.9mag' was the highest FABO qualifier with 20.0 bonus points.


More great picks!

We have 15 players again this week and 14 different driver combos made up of:
* 5 different Top Fuel drivers with one Round 1 head-to-head matchup between #5 qualifier Mike Salinas (1 pick) and #10 qualifier Clay Millican (1 pick). There is a possibility of one head-to-head matchup in Round 2 if both drivers picks survive Round 1.
* 4 different Funny Car drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. The first possibility of a head-to-head matchup in the semi-final round of eliminations.
* 5 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.
* Pro Stock Motorcycle is not competing at this event


Good luck all!
 
Nice work, alsant! I didn't fare too well in eliminations, though.
 
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