"We had the brand-new body on the car there and looking at it we really thought everything was fine. We got underneath it, stared at it, and made sure all the steering linkage cleared and it looked real good. But what happened is when it was going down the track, the air pushing down on the body shoved it back just a little bit and there's a brace under the front fender and it got into the left front tire and I couldn't steer it. When we compared the old body to the new body that brace is about three inches further back on the new body. So what it's doing is shoving it back into the tire. We looked and looked and couldn't see nothing and then I finally saw a big gnarr in the left front tire, and said, 'Where did this come from?' We figured it out and put the other body on because we knocked the nose off the new one. It really was a bad deal to do to the new car, but what do you do now? It's too late to cry about it now."—Tim Wilkerson explaining why he crossed the center line and took out three timing blocks during his first qualifying run

"They started to start the car and they pulled one set of wires and it didn't start, so they pulled the other set and it started. The car ran there a few seconds and one of the coils started smoking real bad. It wasn't going to run real good on one mag anyway and you didn't want to stand the chance of something going amiss in the electronics and blowing the body off of it, so we just shut it off."—Johnny Gray on his aborted second qualifying attempt on Friday night

"I'll tell you what, it feels nice to be right in the thick of it with the quickest cars again. I was getting tired of getting outrun."—Worsham on being 4th after two qualifying passes

"I got down there around 1,000-feet and it was running great, so my brain started thinking about making sure I got my right hand to the parachute lever okay, and for no reason whatsoever I lifted my foot when I reached for the lever. I couldn't believe it myself, actually. Just one of those deals where you're thinking at hyper-speed and you do something before it even registers that you've done it."—Burkart explaining why his Friday night 4.91 could've been just a little better

"He's the guy I like to race the most because if you lose you're supposed to, and if you beat him it's an upset."—Arend after qualifying 16th, on facing number-one qualifier Force in the opening round of eliminations

"We'll try to race the conditions because this is such a high-powered track. It has a tendency, as you can see in the field, to be very close. There's only 15-hundredths of a second separating the entire field."—T. Pedregon anticipating close racing after qualifying second

"All we can do now is be confident in the car, because it wants to run fast. If we get A-to-B tomorrow, we might break some hearts." -- Burkart on his aim for raceday after qualifying 15th

"You have to be ready to take out a little clutch. If there's a lot of penetration on the race track as far as the sun is concerned, we'll have to pull it back a bit. This is a great race track when there's cloud cover, but definitely loosens up when the sun comes out. That's the great thing about what (crew chief) Wes (Cerny) has been able to do with this car; we're not wishing for it to be cloudy or cool to get down the track. Whatever the conditions are, that's what works for us."—C. Pedregon expressing confidence after qualifying in the number-six slot

"With the change in the weather, we didn't back it down enough and overpowered the track. We were just too aggressive."—Johnson Jr. on his first-round loss to Medlen on a very hot day in Dallas