"I'm glad the Goodyears did their job and held together. If they hadn't we'd be putting together our backup car right now." -- Weis after a carbon-fiber panel came off his car during a first-round loss to McClenathan and ripped baseball sized gashes into the right side slick, leaving only a paper-thin layer of rubber

"When I was on the starting line, I just lost concentration for a fraction of a second. I didn't see the yellow come down on the starting line Christmas tree and my foot just went down on the throttle. My brain was saying 'don't hit the throttle', but my foot wasn't listening.”
-- Brandon Bernstein on redlighting against Andrew Cowin in round one

"I thought we had the car to beat today. Against Dixon, I left on him at the starting line and I was ahead at half track, but I started to haze the tires and he drove on by.” -- Schumacher on losing to Dixon in round two

"We didn't have so great of a weekend, but neither did any of the other teams fighting for the championship." -- Wayne Dupuy, crew chief for Morgan Lucas, after they fell to Cory Mac in round two, but still managed to leave Gainesville in second place overall

"There's so much parity in the class that just to get past the first round is like hitting a home run." -- McClenathan after falling in the semis to Doug Kalitta

"Other than [not] getting the win light, it was a pretty good weekend.” -- Dixon after going to the final, but falling in a tire-smoking battle against Doug Kalitta there

"We were low (E.T.) the two rounds before that and we pressed it and shouldn't have. We tried to run better because we thought they would. The track got better and we thought they'd run a 4.48 or 4.49 and we knew we had to be right with them and got too aggressive with the clutch.” -- Don Bender, assistant crew chief for Dixon, on their tune-up for the final round

"That was certainly an exciting final. We started spinning at half-track and I could see Larry out there turning sideways and smoking, too, so I gave it a hit and it hooked back up.” -- D. Kalitta on coming out on top of the final round

"This win will be one I'll remember for a long time. We were struggling. Once we got the monkey off our back and won the first round today, we just carried that momentum, and a little luck, through the rest of eliminations.” -- D. Kalitta again, referring to not having won a round in 2005 before getting to Gainesville

FUNNY CAR

"The conditions today were pretty difficult with the air temperature at 47 degrees and the track at 60 degrees.” -- Tony Pedregon describing Friday’s traction factors

“It was a real narrow window and you had to have the tune-up just right. Most cars were either too weak or too aggressive. The last thing we expected was to come here and face these conditions.” -- Tommy Johnson Jr. on the unseasonably cold temperatures at the Florida speed park on the first day of qualifying

"You had about 300 feet of the tightest race track you can attempt to race on, and everyone was getting their brains rattled out there. Then, just to make it even harder, we got way behind schedule and by the time the second run rolled around, it was like 7:30. The starting line area was so stout it was really hard to put enough power to it to keep from shaking. We managed to get through that, then hit the transition to the asphalt and started spinning the tires almost immediately.” -- Del Worsham on Friday’s track condition