"My big concern right now is this new Goodyear tire and how big of a curve ball it's going to throw our tune-up. The only thing I feel positive about is that we've had three different tires this year and we've been able to make each one work in a relatively short amount of time." -- Gary Scelzi before qualifying 15th, then going out in a cloud of tire smoke against Tony Pedregon in round one

"It's a very tricky race track, especially now; it always has been. It's very challenging. The altitude always presents a problem with making horsepower and making downforce, and now with shortened qualifying sessions and a new tire it made it more challenging." -- Whit Bazemore after lowering the track e.t. record to 4.842 seconds in qualifying number one

"It wasn't as good as what we wanted, but we'll take it." -- Tommy Johnson Jr. after qualifying 6th

"The post that holds the plate that holds the parachute pack sheared off." -- Scelzi explaining why his chute deployed halfway through his second qualifying attempt

"The Firebird has the chutes in a different location than on the Corvette we were running. Things happen so fast in these cars, I'm not sure if I reached up to where the parachute lever used to be or not. I hit them once and they didn't come out and by the time I hit them again and they deployed it was too late to stay out of the sand." -- Jeff Arend explaining his own parachute problem after qualifying 11th with his final attempt on Saturday

"If the sun would come out, it would really help us, because the heroes are throwing out some numbers that we really can't produce." -- Wilkerson before qualifying in the number-seven slot

"That wasn't exactly the script I wrote." -- Gary Densham after losing to Bob Gilbertson in the opening round

"There are no excuses. The weather is the same for everybody. It's not like our side of the track was hot and their side of the track was under a big umbrella." -- Bazemore after going up in smoke and losing in the first round to series newcomer Robert Schwab

"It was unfortunate, but these things happen. Different combination, different tires." -- Scelzi on his first-round loss to T. Pedregon

"I got the jump on him off the starting line but the car started to shake a little bit and I pedaled it twice. When I saw him pulling away I just lifted off the throttle. We can't seem to catch a break in the first round this season." -- Arend on his first-round loss to Johnson

"Man, that first round race was big. My job is to keep Del and Whit and those guys off of [team owner] John (Force). We had a chance to do some good and, fortunately, we did. I felt really good about that and it lasted just about an hour." -- Eric Medlen on his first-round win over Del Worsham -- but after losing to Schwab in round two

"I think the key to success here is to work with less power, [but] we couldn't pull enough power out of our Monte Carlo today." -- T. Pedregon after smoking the tires against Burkart in the second round

"I was nervous when we left the pits because the cloud cover came in over the race track. [Crew chief] Mike (Green) and the guys tuned the car to go down a hot, sunny race track. We tried to compensate for it, but that's what bit us. The car shook the tires around 150 feet into the run and I had to peddle it and that's why we got beat." -- Johnson on his semi-final loss to Burkart

"When I hit the throttle, I didn't see him at first. You usually see them at the hit of the throttle. At about 300 feet, which is a third of the way out, I thought we were in good shape. All of a sudden, my car shook (or spun) the tires." -- Cruz Pedregon on what went wrong for him in the final against Burkart

"I saw a whole lot of Cruz the first half of that race and I didn't like what I was seeing. But then we went by him at some point and the next thing I saw was the win light." -- Burkart on outlasting C. Pedregon in the final round

"You know, we learned every lap and that's what was so rewarding. We fought the track, we fought the elements, and by the end of the day we were outrunning everyone." -- Burkart again, after scoring his second event win of the year