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 “We stumbled a little bit there in the
middle of the summer but we decided to use
this race as a 'get-on-the-horse' event to
get ready for next year, and so far we've been
successful." --
Steve Johns on starting from 2nd-place on raceday
"It's been a fantastic ride all year
long and it's quite a testament to the guys
on our Summit Racing Pontiac team that we've
been able to lead from bell to bell. There
have been so many other things going on that
it really hasn't sunk in. We've won a lot of
races and have held such a big lead that sometimes
you lose track of exactly where you are. But
winning the championship is our main goal and
it's what we set out to do every year. It's
time to get that back in focus since it is
the big picture. If we can make it happen tomorrow
then Sunday will be our best day this season." --
Greg Anderson on the opportunity to clinch
his second-straight championship in Dallas
after qualifying 3rd
"The most important part of today's performance
is that we qualified for Sunday's final eliminations.
After all, you can't win if you don't first
establish a position from which to strike.
The encouraging news for the entire category,
however, is that the performance gap from top
to bottom has shrunk considerably from where
it was a few months ago. Other cars have stepped
up recently, and I'm confident we will be doing
so shortly.”—W.J.
on his 16th-place qualifying result
“I hurt our team and I'm sorry.”—Koretsky
on fouling out of the first round against Dave
Connolly
"It's a good feeling any time you can
put the World Champion on the trailer, especially
on a holeshot. I had felt pretty confident
yesterday, knowing we were within a couple
hundredths of him. It was just a good, old-fashioned
drag race. I guess I've racked up enough losses
against him in the last year and a half that
it was bound to start swinging our way. Hopefully,
it's a direction we'll keep heading in for
some time."—K.
Johnson on sending Anderson home early after
round one
“There were four changes you could make
in one of these cars to give it more bite,
and we made three. Obviously, we needed to
make the fourth.” -- W. Johnson on losing
traction at mid-track in his second-round loss
to Bruce Allen
“Before the final, I told our crew that
our runner-up tally was getting a little long
and that it was time to put another check in
the win column.”—Connolly
on winning for the second time in his 7th final
round this year
“I looked over in the final and saw
all those people behind his car and one of
them yelled over, 'Hey, let him win, he's from
Texas.' That's when I remembered he was from
here. But I wasn't going to give it up that
easy.”—Connolly
again, on defeating veteran Allen, from nearby
Arlington, TX, in the big-money round 
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