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“We made some adjustments to the wing
and we think it might have made the front end
a little too light. It was on a 4.71 run but
then made a hard move to the right and it was
all over. It’s something I’ve never
encountered before as a driver. The car just
wasn’t responding
to what I was doing.” --
T. Pedregon on crossing the center line and
giving a round two win to Force
“We had a little divine intervention against
Tony [Pedregon] in Round 2. It was over for
us. The car wouldn’t fire and we had all
kinds of trouble. I was hoping it would rain
again. Then it started for the burnout and I
did a big, ol’ long one to try to spark
it to life. That didn’t work and Coil told
me to shut her off. I said, ‘Let’s
give her 100 feet.’ Then I see Tony cross
the line and I just got it down the track.”
-- Force on getting
lucky in Chicago
“We were looking to go a little faster
than we did in the first round. But it was good
enough to get the win and we were happy with
that. Then second round we just hopped it up
enough that we thought it would go down the
track faster, but we wouldn’t have beat
a 76.” -- Wilkerson
on the 4.847 he ran against C. Pedregon and
his losing 4.818 against Bazemore in round two
“I think we’ve turned our whole program
around.” -- Tony
Bartone after going to his career-first semi-final
round, but losing against Bazemore
“The national record is fine for your
ego and it’s cool, but what’s more
important, I think, right now, is being able
to go down the track on a hot track and being
competitive there.”
-- Bazemore on officially
setting the national e.t. record to 4.713 seconds
in the semis (backed up by his 4.731 in qualifying)
at a world’s fastest 333.25 mph.
“It’s disappointing to lose. No matter
how good the rest of the weekend is, you come
to win the race.” --
Bazemore on going up in smoke against Force
in the final round
“We had a strategy. We talked and knew
that Bazemore was gonna be the points leader
because he had the national record. So [crew
chief Austin] Coil says. ‘Go in shallow
and we can get it and then we’ll be in
the lead.’ I said, ‘No, let’s
get the win,’ because I know that you’re
on the edge when you run for the national record.”
-- Force again, on playing
it safe to win his second event of the year
PRO STOCK
“This afternoon we discovered a very unusual
problem with one of our rear shocks, which had
contributed to the phenomena of our car pulling
to the right during the last two races. We replaced
the set with another that we had a good data
set on, and actually improved our sixty-foot
time.” -- Warren
Johnson on improving in each qualifying pass
until ending up 6th for raceday
“I went through my normal starting line
routine but I think I put the car in deep (too
close to the starting line), and when I let
out the clutch, it was just a tad too soon.
… You can blame that one on the driver.”
-- Kenny Koretsky on
his .006 red light loss to Kurt Johnson in round
one
“Even if I’d cut a perfect light,
it wouldn’t have made difference.”
-- Jim Yates after his
opening-round loss with a .009 red light against
Jason Line, who went 6.833 secs
“We were expecting to go a couple of more
rounds today. We made a couple of errors that
prevented us from being more of a threat on
race day.” -- Jeg
Coughlin Jr. after losing to Dave Connolly in
round two
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