2024 14th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - It's NITRO Burnin' Time Again!!!
Congratulations to 'Yunick13' (FABO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the 2024 season-opening NHRA Gatornationals with an outstanding total of 176.0 points with class wins in both Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. Both his Top Fuel and Funny Car picks lost in the semi-final round of eliminations. He was helped with ET bonus points in both Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle, and by Speed bonus points in Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. 'memike' (FABO) and 'TT5.9mag' (FABO) shared the runner-up spot with 173.5 points each. They both picked the class winners in both Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle. Their Funny Car pick lost in the semi-finals and their Top Fuel pick lost in the second round of eliminations. They were helped with ET bonus points in Top Fuel, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle, and by Speed bonus points in all four professional classes.
The top FBBO players was 'Budnicks' with 135.0 points
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Doug Kalitta, 3.658 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Doug Kalitta, 337.75 during Round 1 of eliminations
Funny Car
E.T. - Austin Prock, 3.820 during qualifying
Speed - Bob Tasca III, 337.75 during qualifying
Pro Stock
E.T. - Erica Enders, 6.483 during Round 3 of eliminations
Speed - Erica Enders, 212.13 during Round 1 of eliminations
Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Gaige Herrera, 6.629 during Round 2 of eliminations
Speed - Gaige Herrera, 204.54 during Round 2 of eliminations
Here are the game point standings after the opening event of the 2024 season:
The 2nd race of the 2023 season, the 64th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals, is scheduled for March 21-24, at In-N-Out Burger Pomona Dragstrip in Pomona, CA.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts at 7:30pm EDT (4:30pm PDT) on Friday, March 22. nhra.com currently shows the following number of entries:
* 15 Top Fuel
* 20 Funny Car
* 16 Pro Stock
Those counts are always subject to change so make sure to check to make sure your driver picks are entered.
Pro Stock Motorcycle will not compete at this event.
