Congratulations to 'memike' (FABO) and 'stroked340' (FABO) for sharing the 41st annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals "Top Picker Eliminator" title with very nice totals of 110.5 points each. Their shared professional class picks in Funny Car and Pro Stock won their respective classes. Their shared Top Fuel pick lost in the second round of eliminations. They DID NOT earn any ET or Speed bonus points because they did not post new picks this week; their picks were carried over from previous weeks.
'Budnicks' was the top FBBO player with 98.0 points.
Here's where the ET and Speed bonus points were earned if you picked the right drivers:
Top Fuel
E.T. - Mike Salinas, 3.654 while winning Round 2 of eliminations
Speed - Mike Salinas, 338.26 while winning Round 2 of eliminations
Funny Car
E.T. - Robert Hight, 3.881 while winning Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Ron Capps, 333.08 while winning Round 2 of eliminations
Pro Stock
E.T. - Deric Kramer, 6.546 while winning Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Matt Hartford, 209.04 while losing Round 2 of eliminations
Here are the game point standings after the 14th event of the 2023 season:
1309.0 - TT5.9mag (FABO) no change in the game point standings
1174.0 - Back in Time (FABO) no change
1164.5 - ocdart (FABO) no change
1150.0 - Budnicks (FBBO) +2
1121.5 - Yunick13 (FABO) no change
1118.0 - Duster79 (FABO) -2
1107.5 - cuda20 (FABO) +1
1083.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) -1
1064.5 - Outlawd (FBBO) no change
1064.5 - alsant (FBBO) no change
988.5 - memike (FABO) +2
961.0 - stroked340 (FABO) +3
950.0 - johnnycuda (FABO) -2
918.5 - MomsDuster (FABO) -2
907.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) -1
The 15th race of the 2023 season, and the last race of the regular season is the Dodge Power Brokers U.S. Nationals at Indianapolis Raceway Park, scheduled for August 30-September 4.
The first of five Pro qualifying sessions will start at 5:45PM EDT (2:45PM PDT) on Friday, September 1. Get your picks posted!
The nhra.com website currently shows the following professional class entry counts:
19 Top Fuel
21 Funny Car
17 Pro Stock
17 Pro Stock Motorcycle
