"It's absolutely, positively, without a doubt, a relief to hear Bruce and Kenny are alright. You go and look at that race car that Bruce Allen was in last night, and he's a lucky man to be alive. The driver's compartment is really the only salvageable part of the car. They're very, very lucky, and we're very, very happy for them.” — Anderson again, commenting on the horrific accident involving Allen and Kenny Koretsky in Friday night’s qualifying session
“It feels like my chest is crushed. My neck, right arm and hand hurt and the doctors think I may have a bruised heart. The doctors want to run a few more tests before they release me … All I remember is Bruce’s motor coming through the windshield. It was such a hard hit. That’s the hardest hit I’ve ever experienced. I was moving along real well and all of a sudden I came to a dead stop. I didn’t even see him. Bruce and I were very fortunate we weren’t more seriously hurt. The seat belts did their job but they left serious marks on me.” — Koretsky on his condition the day after the accident
“The computer that measures the g-forces in Kenny’s car showed a plus 2.5 reading, but it immediately went to minus 6.5—the highest it reports—when they hit each other.” — Eddie Guarnaccia, crew chief for Koretsky on the data logged in the crash
“We did burn the clutch up on that last run, but we had been playing with fire a little bit, and finally went overboard, so now we know its limitations. That’s the benefit of trying new things once you’re solidly in the show. You certainly wouldn’t want that to happen on raceday.” — Kurt Johnson after qualifying third
"I'm surprised we moved up in that last session. I wasn't expecting it. I'm not saying that we weren't capable. I just didn't think that would be the better session (in the heat of the day).” — Richie Stevens on jumping from 10th to sixth in the last qualifying round
“We did have a bit of an anxious moment right before we ran, because I mysteriously had no air gap in the clutch when I rolled to the line. I stepped on the clutch, and there was nothing. Fortunately, there was a slight delay due to the oildown in the previous pair, which allowed us to repair it in time.” — Warren Johnson explaining his crew’s last-second repairs to his car before he secured the number-eight starting spot in the final session
 "Of course you strive to have the quickest car on the property and it's great when you have one moon shot run because it puts you higher on the qualifying sheet, but when your car repeats what it's doing every pass, regardless of deteriorating conditions, it's encouraging.” — Jeg Coughlin after making four qualifying passes within one hundredth of each other and ending up 11th on the list
"We were all over the combination and the car was not responding. We think there's a bad part. We tried different shocks and gear ratios and we weren't able to figure out what is wrong.” — Jim Yates after missing the qualifying cut by just one thousandth of a second
“I made a bad call. I sped up the linkage one-hundredth (of a second) and that cost us.” — Dave Connolly explaining his redlight start against K. Johnson in the first round
"Actually, I thought I had won because I didn't see him next to me. When I heard Jeg had won I thought I had redlighted, and I was really upset with myself. But that didn't happen. He beat us, fair and square." — Stevens after teammate Coughlin’s slight holeshot put Stevens out in the first round
“For the other teams to think of us as true competitors is a really cool feeling for our entire team." — Erica Enders on making it to the semi-finals against Anderson
"I tried to wait Greg out there in the final, but I couldn't do it. I just told Greg that I wasn't going in first, so we went from there. There was a lot of good-natured ribbing in the pit area between the guys and everybody, so we all had a good time with it. But the engine was getting hot so it was time to go. I think the fans enjoyed it, so that was cool.” — Line on his burndown with teammate Anderson in the final round
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