“I was thinking we had this one, and then it just lit up and it got black as night in there. It was a big one, and plenty hot, and all I was able to do was yank on the brake and try to get it stopped. I thought it was stopped when I popped up through the roof hatch, but then I saw it was still rolling a little. I figured I could jump out safely at that point or go back down in there. It was a pretty easy decision to get out of there.” -- Phil Burkart on his first-round fireball opposite Cruz Pedregon

“Wes made some adjustments to the car and after reviewing the data from the first run, it looks like we over compensated.” -- C. Pedregon after coming up short against Gary Scelzi in round two

“I tell you what; it’s like I passed him with 20 holes (cylinders) gone out on the right-hand side, but it’s only an eight-cylinder Hemi. It went out there and everything was good and all of a sudden it just turned right. And, man, I laid over left to get it back, and it blew the tires off it, and I said, ‘Uh oh, here we go.’ And then I did like I tried to do in Columbus and hammered it all the way to the finish line. In Columbus it broke the blower studs off it. It didn’t break them off this time and the Oakley Dodge Hemi got the win.” -- Scelzi describing his side of the win over Pedregon

“It was looking pretty good, but it got about to the 660-foot marker and spun the tires. We continue to learn more and more at each race.” -- Dickie Venables, crew chief for Tony Pedregon on their loss to Force in the second round

“There are very few ways to win races out here, but a million ways to blow one of these things up.” -- Worsham after a fuel pump malfunction in the semis against Densham robbed his engine of fuel. The motor leaned out and detonated in a ball of fire

“I’m as happy as I could be right now without winning the race. I’ve got a gun that shoots as straight and as fast as anybody out there, and that’s all you can ask for. The rest of it is fate.” -- Scelzi after bowing out against Force in the semis

“I beat the boss and ruined his car at the same time. How dumb am I?” -- Densham after beating team owner Force in the final

“I don’t know what happened. Maybe I drove it too far to make sure I’d turned on the win light, I don’t know. I’ve been racing for 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve ever played in the sand.” -- Densham again, on ending up in the catch fence after his chutes didn’t deploy

“We went up there to race. Maybe down the stretch, if John (Force) needed 20 points to win it all, the outcome would have been different. But right now, we’re going all out. I’m still trying to talk him into letting me win it all this year.” -- Densham one more time, suggesting team orders may yet come into play this season—but not yet

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“Our dominance seems to be diminishing. The two Grumpy (Jenkins) powered cars continue to get better and better each week. We still have about the same gap on the rest of the guys but those two (Steve Johns and teammate Dave Connolly) are here to stay.” -- Greg Anderson after qualifying number one, followed by Johns, Anderson’s teammate Jason Line, and Connolly

“I felt the car move around and just didn’t feel comfortable. I have crossed over that line here before. These cars can turn on you in a hurry and there’s no rewinding the clock once it happens.” -- Troy Coughlin on aborting his third qualifying attempt