2024 14th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - It's NITRO Burnin' Time Again!!!

Wow! Tighter points and lots of position movement following the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals as FBBO players recorded the top 3 point totals.

Congratulations to 'Outlawd' (FBBO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the 2024 NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals in Bristol, TN, with an outstnding total of 168.5 points. Both of his Funny Car and Pro Stock Motorcycle picks raced won their respective classes. His Top Fuel pick lost in the final round of eliminations and his Pro Stock pick fell in the semi-final round of eliminations. He was also helped with ET bonus points in Top Fuel and Funny Car and Speed bonus points in Funny Car.
'Budnicks' (FBBO) took the runner-up spot with 163.0 points and '64BEL' was next with 155.0 points.
'stroked340' was the highest scoring FABO player with 148.5 points.

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

Top Fuel
E.T. - Doug Kalitta, 3.723 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Billy Torrence, 331.45 during Round 1 of eliminations

Funny Car
E.T. - Austin Prock, 3.924 during Round 1 of eliminations
Speed - Austin Prock, 326.87 during Round 1 of eliminations

Pro Stock
E.T. - Greg Anderson 6.615 during qualifying
Speed - Aaron Stanfield, 207.18 during qualifying

Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Matt Smith, 6.715 during qualifying
Speed - Matt Smith, 200.05 during qualifying


Here are the game point standings after the 8th event of the 2024 season:

829.5 - Budnicks (FBBO) +4 change in the points standings
800.5 - Alsant (FBBO) -1
797.5 - stroked340 (FABO) +6
785.5 - Duster79 (FABO) -1
785.0 - cuda20 (FABO) -1
785.0 - ocdart (FABO) +2
780.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) +3
764.5 - Yunick13 (FABO) -1
763.5 - memike (FABO) -7
761.5 - Outlawd (FBBO) +4
757.5 - TT5.9mag (FABO) -5
739.5 - Back in Time (FABO) -1
735.5 - GTXDAN (FBBO) no change
733.5 - johnnycuda (FABO) -2
687.0 - Nick2317 (FBBO) no change
633.5 - SSG_Karg (FABO) no change

We get a week off to either relish our gains or lick our wounds.
The next race event on the 2024 season will be the Virginia NHRA Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park in North Dinwiddie, VA, scheduled for June 21-23. nhra.com currently shows the following entries but these counts may change:

* 16 Top Fuel
* 18 Funny Car
* 17 Pro Stock
* 14 Pro Stock Motorcycle

Please check to verify your picks are participating before posting your picks.


GOOD LUCK!