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"Unfortunately, within 10 to 15 minutes of
our pulling into the staging lanes, the skies
clouded up and the track temperature went down
20 degrees. I guess Mother Nature lost my cell
phone number, because she never called to warn
me not to set up for a hot race track."
-- K. Johnson after falling to Larry Morgan
in the semis
"We've been running on tires that were too
small and the engine went through too high;
we weren't geared right. This thing is in-between
with the gear ratio that we need. We can't really
get where we need to be. We ran two thousandths
quicker down the back than Greg (Anderson) and
that's good." -- Morgan
explaining his loss to Anderson in the final
round
"We're going after wins; we're going after
titles; we're going after history. You don't
get a lot of chances like this so you've got
to get after it when you can. I've said several
times you don't ever expect to do this in a
class like Pro Stock. I don't even really know
why it's happened for us. We're way beyond our
dreams." -- Anderson
on winning his 10th race this year, with 10
still to come on the schedule
"No matter how easy it might look, it's not.
I mean, they say I'm dominating and that means
I have a hundredth or two on the field. That's
nothing. You can lose that at the starting line
every race. It's a struggle, but it's so much
fun." -- Anderson again,
on the challenge of staying on top of the sport's
tightest class
PRO STOCK BIKE
 "We
made a few changes after the first round and
it woke up the bike for the second pass." --
Andrew Hines after going 7.509 at 185.66 mph
to qualify number one and set both ends of the
track record
"Given the thin air up here in the mountains,
we did pretty darn good today." --
Antron Brown after qualifying second
"On the mountain it seems to take forever for
the one-two gear change, and I missed it which
did cost us some elapsed time." --
Craig Treble after settling into the number-five
qualifying spot
"The bikes don't run the quick numbers in the
high altitude so it puts a lot on the drivers
to cut good lights. You'll see a lot of matchups
won on the starting-line this weekend." --
Geno Scali making an accurate prediction, as
9 of the 15 bike elimination rounds were decided
by redlight starts
"That hurts when you put up a better pass,
but lose because of reaction time." --
Angelle Savoie on losing to a holeshot by Treble
in round two
"I wanted to cut a good light, but pushed the
envelope too far. For yet another race, we had
a good bike, but came up short."
-- Brown on redlighting out of the semis against
Shawn Gann
"I told them I'd wait as long as it took for
them to get ready. I mean, you can't do nothing
about a fire. I heard they were thrashing to
get done and I told [NHRA officials] they could
put us at the back of the pack if they wanted.
He'd do the same for me, I know it. But they
got there in time. Then they had trouble at
the line and just reached a point where I had
to put it all out of my mind and just race."
-- Gann after defeating
Treble in the final, on the spectacular and
unusual engine fire Treble experienced in his
semi-final win over a redlighting Hines
"I know if we had the money we could run with
them full-time all year long."
-- Gann again, on chasing points leader Hines
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