PRO STOCK BIKE

Chip Ellis escaped a potential three-win event for Team Schumacher when Angelle Sampey’s Army Suzuki fouled by five thousandths in the Pro Stock Bike final; G-Squared rider was vulnerable with a 0.070 RT in the money round.

“Chip didn't win the race the bike and S&S power won the race.” — Chip Ellis doing the third-person reference thing after winning at Vegas for the second straight year

“We got two lucky breaks—one in the first round and one in the final. Lucky is better than good any day." — Ellis again, referring to the redlight starts by Matt Guidera in the opener and Angelle Sampey in the closer

"The truth on that pass was that it really wasn't as good as it looked.” — Craig Treble after jumping from 15th to finish 8th on the qualifying list

"I really don't know what happened." — Antron Brown on going red against Treble in round one

"We hurt three motors this weekend and each of those motors had the capability of qualifying well and winning the race." — Andrew Hines after suffering a first-round loss to Geno Scali

"We have something missing right now and we just didn't find it this weekend." — G.T. Tonglet, teammate to Hines, after also losing in the opener to Matt Smith and marking just the second time in the team's two-bike history that both riders were ousted so early

"I had a good light and was right on my shift points, but when the bike went into third gear I could feel it starting to nose over and it never recovered." — Treble describing the ignition trouble he suffered in the semis against Sampey

"Needless to say, I'm disappointed." — Sampey on leaving with five thousandths too soon in the final round

PHOTO EXTRA

Photo by Bret Kepner and Ron Lewis

Large Vegas Cacklefest field featured not only a ton of nostaglia fuelers but exhibition runs by Ron Hope and the infamous “Rat Trap” AA/Fuel Altered of Don Green.