PRO MOD

"I did everything I could to keep it from being very, very ugly, but I couldn't avoid just touching the wall and damaging a very good race car." -- Harold Martin on hitting the left guardwall in the final qualifying session

"This has been a season that I will never forget," -- Mike Castellana on winning the St. Louis NHRA event and finishing in the top-10 in points after losing with a redlight against Von Smith in the opening round

"We gave it our best effort. Nobody really gave us a chance to do anything and we proved those people wrong. In the end, we came up a little short but it wasn't for lack of effort. We left nothing on the table today." -- Thomas Patterson after losing to Von Smith in the final and coming up just five points short of stealing the 2003 championship away from Fred Hahn

PRO STOCK BIKE

"Money is a must." -- Chris Reuter, before the race, on his search for sponsorship

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"This is a tough game and the more weapons that you have in your corner, the better your chances are." -- Lloyd Straus on teaming up with Pro Mod racer Mike Ashley and his Gotham City Race Team before qualifying 26th of 30 entries

"You definitely don't want to go down to the last run to get into the field, but we got in and that's what counts." -- Antron Brown after qualifying 13th in the final qualifying round

"It's not pink; it's fuschia." -- Craig Treble, correcting Angelle Savoie in his ESPN interview after beating her in the final round

"It's been too long since we had a whole mile of good runs on Sunday, but today was our day." -- Treble after claiming the number-one qualifying spot, running low E.T. three of the last four rounds of eliminations, resetting the Las Vegas Motor Speedway E.T. record to 7.165 secs for Pro Stock Bikes, then finishing with his first POWERade event championship of the season