2019 9th Annual FABO NHRA "Pick 'Em" Game - Are You Ready For Some NITRO?!!

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Sonoma TV coverage is a 3-parter today...I hope this is either just an experiment or something out of necessity dictated by the networks and not something NHRA is planning for the future.

Saturday qualifying on at 2:30-3:30pm EDT (11:30am-12:30pm PDT) on FS1
Sunday Finals Top Fuel and Funny Car eliminations on at 5:00-7:00pm EDT (2:00-4:00pm PDT) on FOX
Sunday Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle eliminations on at 10:00-11:00pm EDT (7:00-8:00pm PDT) on FS1

"Pick 'Em" game results for Sonoma will probably be posted Monday.

 

[Budnicks]

nice qualifying picks @alsant

 

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Here are the results and point standings following completion of the 15th NHRA event of the 2019 season, the 32nd annual Sonoma Nationals.

Congratulations to 'johnnycuda' (FABO) for winning the "Top Picker Eliminator" title for the NHRA Sonoma Nationals with an outstanding total of 176.5 points. He was helped with both Speed and ET bonus points in Funny Car. His Funny Car, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motorcycle picks all won their class and his Top Fuel pick lost in the semi-final round of eliminations.
'alsant' (FBBO) and 'Back in Time' (FABO shared the event runner-up spot with 157.0 points each.


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

Top Fuel
E.T. - Clay Millican, 3.698 during qualifying
Speed - Brittany Force, 335.15 during Round 1 of eliminations

Funny Car
E.T. - Robert Hight, 3.858 during qualifying
Speed - Robert Hight, 334.65 during qualifying

Pro Stock
E.T. - Alex Laughlin, 6.520 during qualifying
Speed - Erica Enders-Stevens, 211.46 during qualifying

Pro Stock Motorcycle
E.T. - Matt Smith, 6.779 during qualifying
Speed - Matt Smith, 200.83 during qualifying


Here are the game point standings after the 15th event of the 2019 season:

1687.5 - cuda20 (FABO) no change in standings
1616.5 - alsant (FBBO) no change
1597.0 - Back in Time (FABO) no change
1540.5 - Budnicks (FBBO) no change
1455.5 - Duster79 (FABO) no change
1320.5 - ocdart (FABO) no change​

1282.5 - Nick2317 (FBBO) no change
1170.5 - Garry in AZ (FABO) +1
1136.5 - super-bee_ski (FBBO) -1
1110.5 - memike (FABO) no change
1106.5 - johnnycuda *FABO) +4
1100.5 - MomsDuster (FABO) -1
1046.0 - 64BEL (FBBO) -1
1024.0 - stroked340 (FABO) -1
992.5 - 71dartswinger (FABO) -1
953.5 - SSG Karg (FABO) no change
646.5 - Nitro Will (FABO) no change


The 16th race of the 2019 season, the 32nd annual Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals, is August 2nd-4th at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington, and is the final event of the Western Swing and the last of three consecutive weekends of racing.
Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock only are competing at this event.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Pro Qualifying starts on Friday, August 2nd in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Professional qualifying is scheduled to start at 4:00PM EDT (1:00PM PDT).
The Northwest Nationals entry list is not yet posted on NHRA.com. 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!

 

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Here is your Tuesday-before-the-event reminder about the 16th race of the 2019 season, the 32nd annual Magic Dry Absorbent NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Kent, Washington.
Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock are competing amidst the oxygen-rich air at this event.
As always, your picks need to be posted before Nitro Qualifying starts on Friday, August 2nd in order to qualify for all event bonus points. Professional qualifying is scheduled to start at 4:00PM EDT (1:00PM PDT).
The Northwest Nationals entry list is posted on NHRA.com and currently shows 15 Top Fuel, 16 Funny Car and 19 Pro Stock entries but that is always subject to change. 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!

 

[Budnicks]

NW Nats, Kent Wa.

T/F Steve Torrence
(that whole team/family is unreal this past 2 years)

F/C John Force
(If he doesn't win here, his 150th, I'm not picking him any more this season,
I'll go back to Robert Hight or Ron Capps)

P/S Bo Butner
(albeit his teammate Greg Anderson is doing well of late)

Good Luck everyone

no P/SM's

 

[Nick2317]

Seattle picks are

TF Steve Torrence
FC Matt Hagan
PS Greg Andersen

 

[alsant]

Torrence
Hight
Butner

Good luck all!!

 

[64BEL]

For Seattle:

TF Antron Brown
FC Tim Wilkerson
PS BoButner

Good luck guys!

 

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Just sent PM to super-bee_ski reminding him to post his NHRA Northwest Nationals picks

 

[super-bee_ski]

North West Nationals Washington State:

Top Fuel:Leah Prittchert

Funny Car:Bob Tasca III

Pro Stock:Gregg Anderson

Good luck everyone!

 

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NHRA Northwest Nationals qualifying leaders:

Q1
Weather: 80F, 51% relative humidity, 29.74", 2,345' adj. altitude, 102F track temp
TF: Leah Pritchett, 3.725; Austin Prock @ 327.90
FC: John Force, 3.891 @ 328.86
PS: Jeg Coughin Jr., 6.541; Erica Enders-Stevens @ 210.97

Q2
Weather: 80F, 51% relative humidity, 29.74", 2,345' adj. altitude, 102F track temp
TF: Mike Salinas, 3.694; Steve Torrence @ 328.46
FC: Bob Tasca III, 3.871; Robert Hight @ 331.28
PS: Jeg Coughin Jr., 6.539; Erica Enders-Stevens @ 210.97

Q3
Weather: 80F, 44% relative humidity, 29.75", 2,183' adj. altitude, 122F track temp
TF: Mike Salinas, 3.694; Steve Torrence @ 328.46
FC: Bob "Boomer" Tasca III, 3.871; Robert Hight @ 331.28
PS: Jeg Coughin Jr., 6.539; Erica Enders-Stevens @ 210.97

Q4
TF: Mike Salinas, 3.694; Steve Torrence @ 328.46
FC: Bob "Boomer" Tasca III, 3.871; Robert Hight @ 331.28
PS: Jeg Coughin Jr., 6.539; Erica Enders-Stevens @ 210.97

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Did you catch the video of Beau Layne's Top Fuel Harley crash in Q1? Not hurt after crossing over from the left lane through the right lane and crashing into the wall, then rolling quite a ways down the track. His bike kept going and punched through the first catch net, through the sand trap and finally stopped by the last catch net. Wild ride!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Did you catch the video of Beau Layne's Top Fuel Harley crash in Q1? Not hurt after crossing over from the left lane through the right lane and crashing into the wall, then rolling quite a ways down the track. His bike kept going and punched through the first catch net, through the sand trap and finally stopped by the last catch net. Wild ride!

I'll check it out Saturday
That stuff is scary!

 

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Congratulations to 'Moms Duster' (FABO) for winning the Top Qualifier title for the 2019 NHRA Northwest Nationals with a very nice total of 21.0 bonus points. 'Moms Duster' (FABO) picked the #2 qualifier in Funny Car, the #3 qualifier in Pro Stock and the #4 qualifier in Top Fuel. Way to go!
'Nick2317' (FBBO) and 'super-bee_ski' (FABO) shared the runner-up qualifying spot with 19.5 bonus points each.
More great picks!

We have 17 players this week and 15 different driver combos made up of:
* 5 different Top Fuel drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of two head-to-head matchup in Round 2.
* 7 different Funny Car drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of three Round 2 head-to-head matchups.
* 6 different Pro Stock drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of 2 Round 2 head-to-head matchups.
* 5 different Pro Stock Motorcycle drivers with no Round 1 head-to-head matchups. There is a possibility of one Round 2 head-to-head matchup.

 

[alsant]

Nice job Nick &ski !!!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Nice job Nick &ski !!!

Thanks alsant!
Boy, didn't think Tasca would make a comeback after that explosion
1 They had to switch engines
2. Switch bodies
3. Weld up on the chassis.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Great pick Budnicks!
Force gets 150!
WOW!
And oh, yeah, thanks for the F-bombs John!
Oh my gosh, I was shocked he said that but it seems like he did need to get that Monkey off his back!

I certainly needed Gregg Anderson to win...darn!

 

[64BEL]

Nice work, Nick and Ski! My picking sucked...as usual. Interesting coverage and some observations.

Great coverage of Tasca's crew tearing down the engine to see what happened when it blew up on the qualifying show. That kind of interesting different stuff is what they've needed for years.

Nice feature on Mike Salinas. I like him and regretted not picking him as I have most of the season.

Nice to see Hartford win in PS. Nothing against Anderson, and I would have been fine with him sweeping, but it's nice to see someone else win.

Force was in rare form (even for him) - dropping F and S bombs on live TV and hopping a fence like a madman. Looked like he over did it at the end. LOL

Disappointed once again in the lack of coverage of Leeza Diehl. She needs more screen time rather than them cutting to something way less interesting while she's backing up and staging the Surfer's car. Just my 2 cents on that.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Yes Bel,
Great story (Background) on Mike Salinas!
I too thought of picking him.
And Hartford's ET was GREAT.
Yup, how about those F-Bombs!
Oh gosh, should not have happened in my opinion.
He has done that before.
He is 70, I think he's retiring this year.

 

[Budnicks]

Did you catch the video of Beau Layne's Top Fuel Harley crash in Q1? Not hurt after crossing over from the left lane through the right lane and crashing into the wall, then rolling quite a ways down the track. His bike kept going and punched through the first catch net, through the sand trap and finally stopped by the last catch net. Wild ride!

Yep I did
that was a real tumble down the track
supposedly has to have some cosmetic surgery on one of his arms
shocking that's all from that crazy tumble down the track