Like eyedigress (richmondrocker) said. you van only pick a driver 8 times a year. Also, there are three classes of picks; A, B and C which relates to A=Good drivers, B= moderate driver finishes; C=New or backrunners. You can pick 2 A, 4 B and 2 C drivers before the deadline, but you have to pick runners and bench before the deadline. There are two deadlines. The total pick is usually before qualifying and the final pick is about 5 minutes before the race.
The picks make you try to pick the talent/luck in each driver category and the limited driver picks make you figure which tracks are best for each driver. A losing strategy is to use up the picks for the best drivers in each category early in the season. P.S. please beat FR-happydogx2 who is racing league - janas raiders. If you could cause some grief for FR-tubender who is racing league benders de fenders it would be appreciated. My racing league team is BananaSlugRacing. Not so much a tortoise and hare thing as an illegal spraying slippery slug juice from hidden rear bumper sprayers to spin out the car of my choice :)
That's what Norms "Coast Watchers" are for! :^)
I have new spikes that show up in turn 2. How they got there is quite a mystery????