"Right when you get past the grandstands there's always been a crosswind here. I was ready for it, but it still pushed me over pretty good.” -- Ron Capps on his first-round loss to Worsham

“When we pulled up there and Del Worsham smoked the tires in front of us, Mike Neff got on the radio and he said, 'Lanny [Miglizzi, Don Schumacher Racing's track analyst], how's that lane look?' And I got on the radio -- and I never do this -- and I said, ‘Zippy [Neff], take the right lane even if it's just psychological.’ So he listened to me. Why, I have no idea. We took the right lane and the car went right down there.” -- Scelzi on using a little starting-line strategy against Robert Hight in round two

"You have to push the car to the limit in order to have a winning chance. I know we can go down the track every time if we just want to make passes in the 4.90s. But we want to give Tony every mechanical advantage we possibly can and that has its risks." -- Dickie Venables, crew chief for T. Pedregon, on mechanical woes that cost them the second round against Johnson Jr.

“The car put a cylinder out at about 4.3-seconds into the run. Just around half-track the CMKX car shot over to the right and I was fighting to keep it off the wall, but it got too close. I probably clicked it early. It would have been a close race because we were about even at the thousand-foot mark and it could have gone either way.” -- Jeff Arend on his semi-final loss to Medlen

"We had a good race car today. It just wasn't as good as Scelzi's.” -- Medlen summing it his day with grace

"Any time you can beat two of Force's cars in the same day it's a good thing because that doesn't happen very often. I hope we can keep it going and make a horse race out of this championship." -- Scelzi on what it will take to remain competitive over the long haul

PRO STOCK

"I normally don't look over, but after I put it in high gear I kind of looked over and I could see I was gaining on him just a little bit. I really thought I was going to get there first, and I looked over immediately and saw the win light and was pretty excited. I could see I was gaining on him, but I also thought he was ahead. I thought I was going to get there first, but at 200 mph it's pretty hard to tell.” -- Jason Line on overtaking a holeshot by Jeg Coughlin in the final round on raceday

"They weren't what you would call technically perfect runs, but they were certainly competitive. After all, we're much closer to the top of the page than we are the bottom.” -- Warren Johnson on sitting 3rd at the halfway point of qualifying

"We made some tune-up adjustments, but we didn't expect it to pick up that much. I guess we don't know as much about this as we thought we did.” -- W. Johnson on going 6.762 in the final session to qualify on top for the 5th time after 10 races this year

"I knew something was wrong when I had a hard time putting it in reverse after the burnout. I finally had to jerk it into gear, which shook the whole car. I wasn't sure if we had knocked a puck off a clutch disc or what it was, but it was obviously something mechanical. After I staged, when I put it on the rev limiter, it wouldn't stop rolling. At that point, I could either let out the clutch and redlight, or try to somehow get it off the line and give ourselves a chance to win, so I held on to it as best as I could until I saw green. Ironically, it wasn't a bad run after the first 300 feet. In fact, the incremental numbers showed that if we had been able to muster a decent sixty-foot time, our GM Performance Parts Pontiac would have run at least a 6.73. Unfortunately, the 6.77 didn't get it done. When we checked the car afterwards, we found that we had cracked the jam nut on the clutch linkage. This resulted in our not having any air gap, which prevented us from stopping it from rolling. In retrospect, we should have known not to use that part, because it came off last year's car that had given us so much trouble, so it probably was cursed.” -- W.J. explaining the staging troubles that led to his first-round loss against Bruce Allen

"I started to throw it into fifth gear and I looked over and he was already out on us by a lot. Then I looked at the scoreboard and saw the win light on. I about pulled the parachutes and shut it off." -- Dave Connolly on winning the special-event King Demon Crown (a $50K-to-win race within a race featuring the top eight Pro Stock drivers who accumulated the moist points in qualifying during the past year) on Saturday when Jason Line went red off the start