2018 8th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Time For Your NITRO Fix! Here We Go Again!!!
Here are the results and point standings following completion of the Lucas Oil Nationals, the 17th event of the 2018 NHRA season and the last prior to the U.S. Nationals.
Congratulations to 'alsant' (FBBO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title, with a very nice point total of 136.0. 'alsant' picked the Pro Stock Motorcycle class winner, his Top Fuel pick lost in the final round of eliminations, his Pro Stock pick lost in the semi-finals, and his Funny Car pick lost in the second round. 'Nick2317' (FBBO) was the event runner-up with 121.0 points.
'stroked340' and 'Back in Time' were the highest scoring FABO players with 120.5 points each.
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel E.T. - Antron Brown, 3.733 during Round 3 of eliminations Speed - Billy Torrence, 330.96 during Round 3 of eliminations
Funny Car E.T. - Tommy Johnson Jr., 3.937 during Round 2 of eliminations Speed - Robert Hight, 326.95 during qualifying
Pro Stock E.T. - Erica Enders-Stevens, 6.609 during qualifying Speed - Bo Butner, 208.78 during qualifying
Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Matt Smith, 6.852 during qualifying
Speed - Matt Smith, 198.47 during qualifying
Here are the game point standings after the 17th event of the 2018 season:
1526.0 - stroked340 (FABO) no position change in the game standings
1443.0 - Duster79 (FABO) no change
1409.0 - cuda20 (FABO) +1
1396.0 - SSG Karg (FABO) -1
1385.5 - Back in Time (FABO) +1
1373.5 - Budnicks (FBBO) -1
1363.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) no change
1360.0 - aslant (FBBO) +1
1280.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) -1
1280.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) +2
1269.5 - ocdart (FABO) -1
1253.0 - memike (FABO) -1
1224.0 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) no change 997.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) no change
And now we get a weekend off! The 18th race of the season, the Chevrolet Performance NHRA U.S. Nationals is August 29th-September 3rd, at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis, Indiana. As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, August 31 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 7:15PM EDT (4:15PM PDT).
There will be five rounds of pro qualifying, one on Friday, two on Saturday, and two on Sunday.
And don't forget, elimination round wins at the U.S. Nationals count 15 points rather than the usual 10 points.
The U.S. Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 20 Top Fuel, 18 Funny Car, 18 Pro Stock and 19 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries, but the counts are sure to change. Keep checking NHRA U.S. Nationals for an updated entry list.
