2024 14th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - It's NITRO Burnin' Time Again!!!
Congratulations to 'Budnicks' (FBBO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the 2024 NHRA Arizona Nationals with a very nice total of 133.0 points with a class win in Funny Car. His Pro Stock pick pick lost in the final round of eliminations and his Top Fuel pick lost in the semi-finals. He was helped with bot ET and Speed bonus points in Top Fuel and Funny Car. '64BEL' (FBBO) took the runner-up spot with 121.0 points with a class win in Funny Car. His Top Fuel pick lost in the final round of eliminations and his Pro Stock pick lost in the semi-finals. He was helped with both ET and Speed bonus points in Funny Car. The top FABO players were 'TT5.9mag' and 'ocdart' with 108.5 points each.
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Steve Torrence, 3.678 during qualifying
Speed - Steve Torrence, 336.23 during qualifying
Funny Car
E.T. - Austin Prock, 3.840 during qualifying
Speed - Austin Prock, 334.40 during qualifying
Pro Stock
E.T. - Jeg Coughlin Jr., 6.517 during qualifying
Speed - Jeg Coughlin Jr., 210.64 during qualifying
Here are the game point standings after the 3rd event of the 2024 season:
342.0 - TT5.9mag (FABO) +4 spots in the game standings
338.5 - Budnicks (FBBO) +8
332.5 - memike (FABO) -2
312.5 - cuda20(FABO) -2
312.0 - Duster79 (FABO) -2
307.0 - alsant (FBBO) no change
304.0 - ocdart (FABO) +6
302.5 - Back in Time (FABO) no change
300.5 - Yunick13 (FABO) -5
278.5 - stroked340 (FABO) +4
271.0 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change
270.0 - GTXDAN (FBBO) no change
262.5 - Outlawd (FBBO) -4
246.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) -7
242.5 - 64BEL (FBBO) +1
182.5 - SSG-Karg (FABO) -1
The 4th race of the 2023 season, the 14th annual NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, is scheduled for April 12-14, at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, NV.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts at 2:30pm EDT (11:30am PDT) on Friday, April 12. nhra.com currently shows the following number of entries:
* 16 Top Fuel
* 20 Funny Car
* 21 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.
