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 New England Nationals, the first event of the second half of the season thirteenth event of the 2018 NHRA season.
Congratulations to 'Nick2317' (FBBO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the second event in a row with a very nice point total of 108.5. He picked the class winner in Funny Car, his Top Fuel pick made it to the final round of eliminations before losing, and his Pro Stock pick lost in the second round of eliminations. He was helped with ET bonus points in both Funny Car and Pro Stock.
'stroked340' (FABO) was the event runner-up with 96.5 points.
'Budnicks' was the highest scoring FBBO player with 72.0 points.
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Leah Pritchett, 3.742 during qualifying
Speed - Tony Schumacher, 330.31 during qualifying
Funny Car
E.T. - Matt Hagan, 3.932 during qualifying
Speed - John Force, 324.75 during qualifying
Pro Stock
E.T. - Greg Anderson, 6.517 during qualifying
Speed - Tanner Gray, 212.69 during qualifying
Here are the game point standings after the 13th event of the 2018 season:
1079.5 - SSG Karg (FABO) no change in the game standings
1079.0 - stroked340 (FABO) +2
1065.0 - Back in Time (FABO) no change
1042.0 - cuda20 (FABO) -2
1040.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) +3
1031.0 - alsant (FBBO) no change
1013.5 - Duster79 (FABO) -2
1011.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) -1
966.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) no change
966.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) no change
919.5 - memike (FABO) no change
913.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) no change
906.5 - ocdart (FABO) no change
750.56 - 64BEL (FBBO) no change
Now for a weekend off to get ready for three (3) consecutive weekends of racing and a lot of highway miles that's called the Western Swing.
The 14th race of the season, the 39th annual Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals is July 20-22 at Bandimere Speedway, 5,869 feet up on the side of the mountain in Morrison, Colorado.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, July 20 in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Pro qualifying is scheduled to start at 7:15PM EDT (4:15PM PDT).
The Dodge Mile-High Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 14 Top Fuel, 15 Funny Car, 14 Pro Stock and 12 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries, but the counts are subject to change. Keep checking
Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals for an updated entry list.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!