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“We’re still looking for that proverbial
sweet spot in the first sixty feet, because
we are starting to outrun the competition in
the back half again.” --
W.J. after his semi-final loss to Greg Anderson
“Sure I wanted to win - that’s why
I tried so hard, and that’s why I red lighted.
I just flat tried too hard. You don’t have
that luxury when you run up against a lot of
the guys, but you do when you have a team car
in the final, and that’s what happened.
I just tried too hard and went over the edge.”
-- Anderson on leaving .042 too soon in the
final against teammate Line
“I wish Greg wouldn’t have red lighted,
but other than that, it was awesome. It was
everything I could have hoped for.” --
Line on his career-first win in Pro Stock
“Tomorrow I might change my mind about
liking to work on the car more than driving,
but I’ve got to let it sink in first.”
-- Line again, on winning
his first final round after three attempts this
year
PRO STOCK BIKE
“If I can get by both Karen and Angelle
tomorrow in eliminations, I will paint my toenails
in celebration.” --
Craig Treble after qualifying number four—and
before defeating Karen Stoffer and Angelle Savoie
in rounds one and two, respectively
“It’s hardly a secret formula. Hard
work and lots of money will equal results and
now we have some.” --
Steve Johnson on qualifying 6th
“Simply put, I hate to lose the race before
it starts. But it’s hard to be really upset
at being too quick. We just need to slow down
my reaction time a little more so we can depend
on green lights during eliminations.” --
Johnson on his first-round loss via a red light
against Antron Brown
“Michael Phillips’ margin for error
was a hair. If he was a nanosecond quicker,
he red lighted. If he’s 15-hundredth later,
he loses. But none of that happened.” --
George Bryce, team owner for Fred Collis, after
Collis lost with a .004-secs reaction against
Phillips’ perfect .000 light
“Quite obviously, I don’t like to
give away races like that.” --
Brown on going red against Andrew Hines in round
two
“I cut it way too close on the tree. We
had a good bike today and to go out the way
I did is not acceptable.” --
Savoie stating the obvious after fouling out
against Treble
“When he unloaded a best-of-weekend 7.093
elapsed time on me in the semi finals, it didn’t
really give me much room too work with.”
-- Treble on his loss
to Hines in the semis
“This is racing. You can red light or
break. You never know. We were there to take
it when he red lit just like he would’ve
taken it from us if we had red lit.” --
Shawn Gann on winning the final after Hines
left .035 secs too soon
PRO MOD
“Running on the NHRA side is a tough challenge
and I guess we didn’t have what we needed
to grab the win.” --
Thomas Patterson on falling to Zach Barklage
in the first round
“We always want to win every time we come
out to race, but you just can’t greedy.
You have to be content to get a base hit as
opposed to hitting a homerun.” --
Mike Ashley after red lighting in the semis
against Mike Castellana
“Winning’s always good and this one
was no exception.” --
Castellana on defeating Fred Hahn in the final
round 
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