2019 9th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Are You Ready For Some NITRO?!!
Here are the results and point standings following completion of the 18th NHRA event of the 2019 season, the 65th annual U.S Nationals.
Congratulations to 'memike' (FABO) for schooling us all by winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the NHRA U.S. Nationals with a total of 220.0 points. He was helped with E.T. bonus points in Funny Car and Speed bonus points in both Funny Car and Pro Stock. Both his Top Fuel and Funny Car picks won their respective classes. Both his Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle picks lost in the semi-final round of eliminations.
'71dartswinger' (FABO) took the event runner-up spot with 159.5 points.
'super-bee_ski' was the highest FBBO finisher with 129.0 points.
Here's where the bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Brittany Force, 3.645 during qualifiying
Speed - Billy Torrence, 333.33 during qualifying
Funny Car
E.T. - John Force, 3.858 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - John Force, 332.67 during qualifying
Pro Stock
E.T. - Bo Butner, 6.559 during qualifying
Speed - Jason Line, 210.64 during qualifying
Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Angelle Sampey, 6.816 during qualifying
Speed - Matt Smith, 197.25 during qualifying
Here are the game point standings after the 18th event of the 2019 season (before the points reset):
1911.0 - cuda20 (FABO) no change in standings
1850.5 - Back in Time (FABO) no change
1830.5 - alsant (FBBO) no change
1782.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) no change
1712.0 - Duster79 (FABO) no change
1548.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) no change
1481.0 - ocdart (FABO) no change
1446.5 - memike (FABO) +3
1404.0 - Garry in AZ (FABO) -1
1366.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) -1
1353.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) -1
1341.0 - MomsDuster (FABO) no change
1259.0 - stroked340 (FABO) no change
1254.5 - 64BEL (FBBO) no change
1248.0 - 71dartswinger (FABO) no change
1176.5 - SSG Karg (FABO) no change
866.5 - Nitro Will (FABO) no change
The 19th race of the 2019 season and the first race of the playoffs, the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals Presented By Pennzoil, is September 12th-15th at Maple Grove Raceway in Mohnton, Pennsylvania.
Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle are competing at all events for the balance of the season.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, September 13th in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Professional qualifying is scheduled to start at 2:00PM EDT (11:00AM PDT).
The Mopar Express Lane Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 15 Top Fuel. 17 Funny Car, 13 Pro Stock and 15 Pro Stock Motorcycle entries. Keep checking the NHRA.com website for an updated entry list to make sure your picks are competing at this event.
Get your picks posted and GOOD LUCK!