"Well, we kind of hoped we'd have a role to play in this championship thing, so I guess we got what we hoped for." — Del Worsham on his opportunity to play spoiler and affect the championship outcome with his first-round pairing against contender Ron Capps

“This stinks, there's no getting around it and there's no way to sugarcoat it.” — Phil Burkart after suffering his third DNQ of the year

“There's something really wrong with that chassis. I don't know what it is. We came here without having tested it since it's been front-halved from Murf McKinney (chassis shop). In the future, we'll never do that again, run an untested chassis, ever. We were lucky to qualify, quite honestly. In the very first run after 150 feet it turned hard left and we fought it the whole way and we were very, very fortunate that we didn't smoke the tires then. And last night it did the exact same thing, only, when we corrected it, it unloaded the rear a little bit and it made us smoke the tires. So when you're on the limit, you can't have a car that you have to drive that hard. It just doesn't work in this sport. We're going to have a new car next year. That's going to help. We're going to have to really assess our performance this year and all aspects of it; assess it and do what we have to do to get ourselves on the same level as our teammates." — Whit Bazemore after his car took a violent right turn immediately off the hit in his first-round race against Force, eventually crossing the centerline

"That was the first time in my entire career that I gave someone a single in final eliminations. There have been times when I have pulled up to the starting line knowing we didn't have the best car or knowing we might not make it all the way down the track. But I have never given anyone a single. That was very disappointing." — Gary Densham on the clutch failure on the starting line in round one that allowed Tommy Johnson Jr. to make a solo pass for the win

“When I shut the throttle it had a rod out of it, so it was beat up pretty good. It's a good thing I shut it off, because it probably would have been more on fire than it was.” — Wilkerson after losing to Scelzi in the opening round

"What can I say? We weren't even in the ballpark with those guys on that lap. We just flat missed it, we whiffed." — Worsham on falling far short of Capps in round one

“This is the run we’ve been waiting for all year.” — Bob Gilbertson on running a career best 4.776 at 320.97 mph in his first-round loss to Robert Hight

“I was shocked that it smoked the tires out there. I don't think we've done that in a long time with this Brut Dodge. Not for five or six races, so that was surprising. I wasn't ready for it.” — Capps on losing traction in round two against Cruz Pedregon

"My heart sunk all right [when I lost]. And I didn't see him (Pedregon) for a fraction of a second and I was in the mode of ‘Okay, let's win this round,’ and then he came flying by. My first reaction was like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It scared the heck out of me. When he crossed the finish line, I was coasting down there, and the emotions were just hard to take. I didn't want to shut the car off. I just wanted to keep it running and just drive it back here to the pit area." — Capps again, on the end of his title chase at the hands of C. Pedregon

"I was numb. I never saw Tommy on the run. In our car you sit so far back, when you see them they're ahead of you, and I never saw him. I was watching out of the corner of my eye when I had my hand on the parachute lever and I looked for the wall, because there's a [win] light on the wall, and it didn't come on.” — Scelzi on losing to Johnson Jr. in round two and putting his championship hopes in jeopardy

“They tried to give (the championship) to us but, bottom line, we couldn’t take advantage. We had a shot but the driver just didn’t get the job done.” — Force on watching both Capps and Scelzi lose in round two ahead of him and then losing himself to a holeshot by former teammate T. Pedregon

"I felt some big emotion when I beat John. I knew what it meant for him and we all know he gave me my start. I spent a lot of time with him, a lot of my life, and it was bittersweet knocking him out of the title, but if I didn't give him 100-percent he would have been mad at me. That's the way he is." — T. Pedregon after his better reaction time led to a win in the second round over Force

“I sat there and watched Force get beat and I wasn't sure that he really got beat. Everybody was kind of quiet. I'm still numb right now.” — Scelzi on his reaction to the moment of securing his first Funny Car championship