"Cruz Pedregon guessed at the light and cut an .027, which is virtually impossible. But it doesn't surprise me. It seems like whenever we go to race anybody they do their best and run their best. There's no complaining here; it's happened all year long." -- Scelzi after losing in the opening round to C. Pedregon

"Running 4.80 at almost 320 mph pedaling the throttle shows you how strong our car will be when we get rid of the shake." -- Ron Capps after going 4.898 at 319.07 in a losing effort against Dean Skuza in round one

"We were not a lucky team today. But, what the heck; anyone who counts on luck isn't a winner. And we're going to be winners out here." -- Worsham's teammate Phil Burkart after his second-round loss to Skuza

"We'll have to check the chassis very well, but my guess is that we tweaked it just a bit in the first-round deal. I could feel it on the burnout; it just acted differently and kicked the opposite direction that it usually does. On the run, it just kept fading left, and there wasn't anything I could do to bring it back. I hated to give it up, because we were out on him pretty well and we were on our way to winning that round, but the next thing coming was the center line and you can't be driving over there." -- Worsham on his aborted round-two pass against Gary Densham

"I thought it was our day, but when we lost lane choice to (Tim) Wilkerson, our car didn't like it so well in the left lane. But we set a track speed record and went some rounds so that was all good." -- Densham after losing in the semis and referring to the 4.749 at 327.27 mph that he ran to qualify number one

"I guess we scared everybody we ran today, because they all smoked the tires."
-- Wilkerson after beating Wyatt, Creasy, Densham, and Cruz Pedregon in the final

"Winning for the second time this year, I guess you should get used it like it's no big deal, but it's still sweet. The team worked so hard and I can't thank them enough." -- Wilkerson again, referring to his earlier win at Indy's U.S. Nationals

PRO STOCK

"It's unfortunate that it came down to a one-shot deal, but we've been in that situation before, and made the good run when we needed it. Today we were four thousandths off." -- Kurt Johnson on just missing the 16- car cut in qualifying

"I never envisioned us running as well as we have this year." -- Points leader Greg Anderson after earning his 11th top qualifier this season

"We certainly would have liked to have had a better showing today." -- Jeg Coughlin Jr. after dropping his first-round match with eventual race winner W. Johnson

"It feels good to be moving in the right direction." -- Jim Yates after qualifying seventh, beating Kenny Koretsky in round one, then running his fastest speed of the weekend (204.20 mph) in a losing cause against W. Johnson

"It's a great race car on a bad track." -- Allen Johnson on his 2003 Dodge Stratus before qualifying fifth, then redlighting out of the first round against Mike Edwards

"The competition is pretty fierce out there. To go rounds on Sunday is a pretty good indication that our program is headed in the right direction." -- Troy Coughlin after his -.060 redlight start was a little worse than the -.004 start by W. Johnson in the final

"Both of the Coughlin kids are awfully good on the starting line, so whenever you race them, you have to take your best shot and hope it comes out right. We were both going for it in the final, and it was close, but Troy simply did a better job of red-lighting than I did."
-- Warren Johnson referring to his .003 light against Jeg in round one and his fortunate win in the final round