“The sucker shook about the same place where, on
the run before, it smoked the tires. And I said, ‘Come
on, you can make it,’ and it finished shaking and
just took off.” -- Medlen
on his tire-smoking duel with Ron Capps in the semis after
beating teammate Force in the final round
"The Brut Dodge rattled and then all of a sudden I
didn't see Eric out of the window and I thought, Uh-oh,
he's in trouble too, so we got into a pedalfest. His car
knocked the supercharger off right at the finish line, so
I thought I got him. I guess not.”
-- Capps on his view of the semi-final against Medlen
PRO STOCK
"I knew going in to the final that I would have to
be on top of my game, because Greg is one of the best drivers
out there at getting off the starting line." --
Kurt Johnson referring to Greg Stanfield, who made it to
the final by strapping a huge holeshot on Johnson’s
father Warren in the semis
"Certainly,
we had a few things go our way, but you make your own luck.
You have to put yourself in the right position to take advantage
of your good fortune and today, thanks to some hard work
by my crew, Kevin Horst and Joe Cottle, we did.”
--
K.J. again, reflecting on the effort put in to earn the
win
"Racing a body style that is aerodynamically competitive
will help our program from two aspects. First we will have
the confidence of being in the most competitive car aero-wise.
In addition, we will be racing new tubing, which invariably
goes faster. Any way you look at it, it's all good."
-- Warren Johnson expressing confidence
in the GTO he debuted at the Brainerd event
"When I got into fourth gear, I felt the back end
of the car move, like it was spinning pretty good. It felt
like it raised up just a little bit. It kind of made a little
move towards the wall. I went to go correct it, and it just
must have bit down pretty good. It shot back across (the
track) and I had to lift. I couldn't go on with that one,
and had to abort the run and save the car. I hadn't had
one of those for a long time, to have to abort it like that.
It got my attention. I was kind of shaking down at the end
of the track.” -- Richie Stevens
on his first-round loss to Jason Line
"I took a shot at the tree.”--
Dave Connolly after going red by just two thousandths in
an automatic first-round loss to Greg Anderson
"We made some changes to the wing and clutch before
the run so we could get down the track, but we fell victim
to the oiled-down race track."
-- Jim Yates after losing to V. Gaines in round one
“It was good to be back on the track. I just wish
we'd been able to qualify in the top half of the field so
we could've had lane choice. It did make a difference."
-- Kenny Koretsky referring to sitting
out the Western Swing with a sore shoulder and after an
opening-round loss to K. Johnson
"The [semifinal] win over Greg [Anderson] was big.
I figured he'd run a 6.72 and about the best we could do
was a 6.74, so I knew I needed to get three [hundredths
of a second] at the tree. Then I guess he broke, so we were
able to win anyway. Dad was happy about that one."
-- K. Johnson on going to his 59th
career final-round appearance
