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 opening NHRA event of the 2018 season.
Outstanding SoCal weather for the Winternationals.

Congratulations to 'Nick2317' (FBBO) for being "Top Picker Eliminator" for the Lucas Oil Winternationals, the first event of 2018, with a very nice point total of 111.5 points with a class win in Funny Car. His Pro Stock pick went to the finals but lost there, and his Top Fuel pick went out in the second round of eliminations. He was helped by Speed bonus points in Top Fuel and ET bonus points in both Funny Car.
'alsant' (FBBO) and 'Duster79' (FABO) were right behind with 110.5 points. Both scored with a class win in Funny Car and their Top Fuel and Pro Stock picks lost in the semi-finals. They both also picked up ET bonus points in Funny Car Speed bonus points in Pro Stock.


Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:

Top Fuel
E.T. - Clay Millican, 3.628 (New National Record) during qualifying
Speed - Steve Torrence, 333.00 during Round 1 of eliminations

Funny Car
E.T. - Matt Hagan, 3.822 during qualifying
Speed - Robert Hight, 336.99 while losing in the final round of eliminations

Pro Stock
E.T. - Vincent Nobile, 6.529 during qualifying
Speed - Greg Anderson, 211.23 during Round 1 of eliminations

Here are the game point standings after the 1st event of the 2018 season:

111.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO)
110.5 - alsant (FBBO)
110.5 - Duster79 (FABO)
103.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO)
96.0 - Back in Time (FABO)
94.5 - 64BEL (FBBO)
84.5 - ocdart (FABO)
83.5 - stroked340 (FABO)
77.5 - Budnicks (FBBO)
68.5 - cuda20 (FABO)
65.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO)
38.0 - SSG Karg (FABO)

'johnnycuda' (FABO) will join us at the next event


The 2nd race of the 2018 season, the 34th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals, is February 23-25, at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, AZ.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, February 23 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 3:30PM EST (12:30 PM PST).
The Arizona Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 15 Top Fuel, 15 Funny Car, and 14 Pro Stock entries, but the counts are subject to change. Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist02.aspx for an updated entry list.
Pro Stock Motorcycle will not run until the 3rd race of the 2018 season at Gainesville, Fl.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!