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 NHRA Summit Racing Equipment Nationals, the twelvth event of the 2018 NHRA season.
Congratulations to 'Nick2317' (FBBO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title with an outstanding point total of 142.0. He picked the class winner in both Funny Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle, his Top Fuel pick lost in the semi-final round of eliminations and his Pro Stock pick lost in the second round of eliminations. He was helped with ET bonus points in Pro Stock Motorcycle.
'alsant' (FABO) was right behind with 141.5 points.
'71dartswinger' was the highest scoring FABO player with 137.5 points.
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Clay Millican, 3.750 during qualifying
Speed - Clay Millican, 332.67 during qualifying
Funny Car
E.T. - Courtney Force, 3.935 during qualifying
Speed - Courtney Force, 327.66 during qualifying
Pro Stock
E.T. - Jeg Coughlin Jr., 6.588 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Drew Skillman, 209.65 during Round 1 of eliminations
Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Eddie Krawiec, 6.865 during Round 3 of eliminations
Speed - Hector Arana Jr., 196.85 during qualifying
Here are the game point standings after the 12th event of the 2018 season - the half-way point:
1020.0 - SSG Karg (FABO) no change in the game standings
1011.0 - cuda20 (FABO) +2
993.0- Back in Time (FABO) -1
982.5 - stroked340 (FABO) -1
970.0 - Duster79 (FABO) no change
965.0 - aslant (FBBO) +1
939.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) -1
931.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) +1
906.0 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) -1
894.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change
888.5 - memike (FABO) no change
868.0 - 71dartswinger (FABO) +1
853.0 - ocdart (FABO) -1
706.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) no change
Finally, we get a weekend off so some of us can try and figure out where (and why) it's all going wrong!
The start of the second half of the 2018 season will start with the 13th race of the season, the 6th annual NHRA New England Nationals is July 6-8 at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, July 6 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 4:30PM EDT (1:30PM PDT).
The New England Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 15 Top Fuel, 17 Funny Car and 13 Pro Stock entries, but the counts are subject to change. Keep checking http://www.nhra.com/events/entrylist12.aspx for an updated entry list.
Pro Stock Motorcycle will not compete at this event.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!