PRO STOCK

"I don't want to win on a red light, but you take the wins when you can get them." -- Kurt Johnson after Greg Anderson left too soon in the final, on winning his first event since February 2004

"That was a real nailbiter.” -- Kenny Koretsky after running 6.817 seconds in the fourth qualifying round to oust Erica Enders by one-thousandth for the 16th and final raceday position

“When that .81 came up in the heat of the day, that was pretty stout and it had the team pumped up. Then on this last session, I get the radio call at the end of the track saying we got bumped and are now 17th, talk about highs and lows. It's disappointing, but it's also just part of the game." -- Enders on being on the other side of Koretsky’s last-minute heroics

"We know we're making good power, and when you have horsepower under the hood, you had better make good runs and the driver has to be on his game, because it's all hills and valleys out here. You have to take advantage of it when you can, which is what we are looking to do here in St. Louis tomorrow night.” -- K. Johnson after qualifying number one

“Basically, it will look better than it really is, so you have to avoid the natural tendency to get very aggressive with the tune-up, because more often than not, you'll end up shooting yourself in at least one foot, if not two.” -- Warren Johnson on tuning for a very hot raceday surface after qualifying in the third position\

"That was good. We needed that." -- Richie Stevens on qualifying fifth

"We've been doing this long enough to know that to be competitive in Pro Stock you need to have lane choice, horsepower and confidence in your car on raceday. Right now, we don't have any of those things this weekend.” -- Koretsky after losing by a wide margin to K, Johnson in round one

"We put ourselves in that position by qualifying 15th. We changed the tune-up after Saturday's last run and the car ran the way it should've Saturday night. If it had done that then, it would've put us in the top eight." -- Jim Yates on having to face - and lose to - defending class champion Greg Anderson despite making his best pass of the weekend in round one of eliminations

"He had a .002 light. It would have been hard to beat him, period. We only ran a hundredth (of a second) quicker. I still would have had to have a .012 light or better. Again, driver error. I screwed up.” -- Stevens on his loss to Greg Stanfield in the opener on raceday

"We made a beautiful run, it just wasn't enough." -- Dave Connolly on falling to Greg Anderson in the semis