"Although it was a good race in the final, we slowed down a little bit, and it obviously cost us. The car started spinning the tires down track and didn't run like it should have, losing eight thousandths in the back half." -- Kurt Johnson after losing in the final round by just four-thousandths of a second to Greg Anderson

"I guarantee you that was as close a finish as I've ever had. He was ahead of me. I could see him and I know it's not very often that happens with Kurt Johnson in the other lane and you still manage to drive around him at the top end. If I do go on to win it all this year it will be a nice feeling to know I earned it against the best guys in the business." -- Points leader Greg Anderson on his final-round win

PRO STOCK BIKE

"When tracks stay the same, it's like a marriage because you know what to expect. We won't know what to expect until we get there, but I'm excited about the changes and look forward to racing on a smoother surface." -- Points leader Geno Scali before qualifying 5th on the resurfaced Brainerd strip

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"The left lane has a bump and a crown on it, right past the 60-foot mark, and you have to try to skip over it. We're not showing what we all have right now, and I am looking forward to going out there tomorrow knowing what we know now about both lanes." -- Antron Brown after the first day of qualifying

"All we can figure at this point is that the bike jumped up out of the starting line beams. Whatever happened, we got beat. -- Craig Treble on red lighting against John Smith in round one

"I feel like I shot us in the foot with a big gun. We had Smith covered in E.T. and had lane choice. All I had to do was just go down the track, but I wanted more out of our Suzuki so I leaned on it to get ready for what I thought to be Shawn Gann in the semifinals. I made the smallest change and the bike just hated it. I had a plan and stuck to it, it was just the wrong plan." -- Steve Johnson after his second-round loss to Smith

"I thought he had treed me because I saw him out on me. It turns out we were spinning pretty bad in low gear. I finally caught him by fifth gear, that was about at half-track, and when I went into sixth I was gone. That was the best back-half anyone ran all weekend and we needed it." -- Brown after defeating Smith in the finals