FUNNY CAR
"This is a very humbling sport." -- Jerry
Toliver on failing to qualify just one week
after winning at the season opener in Pomona,
CA
"One thing I have learned since I joined Force
Racing, we can win more events by intimidation
than by anything else." --
Gary Densham after earning his seventh career
number-one qualifying position
"That's just how the game is." -- Whit
Bazemore after being bumped from the top spot
by Densham in the last qualifying session
"I almost red-lighted. I caught it, but then
I was late and Burkart was gone on me. My fault."
-- John Force on losing
to a holeshot by Phil Burkart in round one
"That's one of the bigger wins of my career."
-- Burkart on taking
out Force
"Of course I wanted to beat Tony but I'm just
as happy to see him advancing rounds." -- Cruz
Pedregon on losing to his brother and teammate
in the opening round
"I'm sure there will be more of those match
ups and he'll beat me a few times as well."
-- Tony Pedregon referring
to his brother after round one
"When you look back you think we shoulda, coulda,
woulda, but to put it simply, the track was
better than we expected and we weren't ready
for it." -- Tim Wilkerson
after losing the closest match of the first
round to Del Worsham
"We made a very minor change and all of a sudden
it became an animal. It went out there far enough
to where it should have made it and all of a
sudden it just took the tire off it." --
Gary Scelzi on going up in smoke against Burkart
in the second round
"It's a round we should have won. I made a
mistake on the starting line and that's that.
We got beat." -- Bazemore
on his second-round loss to Worsham
"The car was just too aggressive." -- Tommy
Johnson Jr. after losing traction early against
Eric Medlen in round two
"I feel like I let the guys down and that's
what I hate." -- Medlen,
after his .270 light was the beginning of a
semi-final loss against T. Pedregon
"I've been driving for a lot of years, and
I've learned how to block out who is in the
other lane. I'm just worried about what's going
on with my car and if I cross the finish line
first." -- T. Pedregon
on having to race former teammate Densham, then
Medlen in Pedregon's championship-winning ride
from a year ago
"Winning your sponsor's race is a close second
to winning the POWERade championship in terms
of goals." -- Worsham
on driving his CSK Pontiac to the final-round
win over T. Pedregon
PRO STOCK
"We were going in the right direction. We just
ran out of qualifying runs." -- Kenny
Koretsky on not making it into the raceday field
"We didn't do as well as we thought we would
in the last session when it was warm." -- Greg
Anderson after getting his 19th top qualifier
in a track-record time of 6.746 at 204.82 mph
"These cars don't run very well on seven cylinders."
-- Jeg Coughlin Jr.
on breaking a rocker arm early in the first-round
against Jim Yates
"That was all that engine had left to give.
Looking at the data from the run against Kurt,
we actually made a better run in the second
round, but it was obviously a wounded duck."
-- Warren Johnson after
his loss in round two to his son, Kurt
"I could feel him next to me all the way down.
I wanted to look so bad but I didn't. I just
waited for a win light. I suffered for seven
seconds like you're supposed to." --
K. Johnson, after his 6.835 overcame a .025
holeshot by Connolly in the final round
"Every race is a battle and a key piece in
the championship. Today, the ACDelco crew won
the battle, and we're about 80 points ahead
of where we were last year at this time, but
it's going to be tight all season." --
KJ again, on the big picture
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