MILE-HIGH QUOTES

We gathered a few quotes from racers after NHRA's Mile-High Nationals in Denver. Seems to the Agent that the shortage of oxygen wasn't affecting only the engines. Hmm. . .

"You can really tell. Engines make roughly 7,000 horsepower and when you miss one, divided by eight, it's a lot." -- Larry Dixon on losing a cylinder during his first qualifying pass

"It was like being on ice in second and third gear." -- Scott Geoffrion after failing to qualify in Pro Stock

"This car is so much fun to drive now that it doesn't blow up." -- Terry Haddock after qualifying 15th in Funny Car

"It was all good. We were on the best run of the weekend. Then it broke a piston, the engine quit and that was all bad." -- Gary Densham on his first-round loss to Cruz Pedregon

"I'm glad to be getting out of here." -- Doug Herbert after losing to David Baca in T/F's first round

"For getting beat again, we're pretty happy." -- Gary Scelzi on the data gained after his first-round loss to Tim Wilkerson

"Let's go to Seattle and breathe in that oxygen." -- Johnny Gray after losing in the first round to John Force

"We'll get off this hill and go to Seattle where the conditions are normal." -- Allen Johnson after losing to Jim Yates in the opening round of Pro Stock

"This place is beautiful, but racing here is tricky." -- Craig Treble after his first-Round Pro Stock Bike loss to Fred Collis

"You can't go up there and run a Tony Pedregon doing Whit Bazemore a favor. It just winds up a favor and he just cashes in on it. He owes me. I want my check in the mail.

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He can mail it today and I want it by Tuesday; next-day air will be fine. Or he can just walk it over here." -- Scotty Cannon after his first-round win over Tony P. helped out teammate Whit Bazemore in the points chase

"I don't know what I was thinking up there (at the starting line) but obviously I wasn't thinking the right thing. I wasn't thinking go, I was thinking slow." -- Cory McClenathan after losing to a holeshot by Melanie Troxel in the second round

"There's no such thing as a bad win or a good loss." -- Warren Johnson after winning the Pro Stock final.

"I knew it had been a long time because my (winners' circle) interview was so bad. Nothing came out like I wanted." -- John Force after ending his season-long absence from victory lane [7-22-2003]