“We were looking to run a low 4.80, but the clutch engagement timers that are activated by the throttle switch, went off too soon. They are weather sensitive and the change in temperature from when we were in the pits to the starting line was about 10 degrees and it just caused the car to smoke the tires.” - C. Pedregon explaining what went wrong in his opening-round match against Jerry Toliver

“When it spun the tires it got out of the groove and dropped a cylinder. It wasn’t going to go anywhere so I shut it off early. If I would have legged it through there, it probably would have gone an .86 or .87 and knocked the blower off or something stupid and we wouldn’t have won anyway.” - Tim Wilkerson on his 4.901 in the first round against Eric Medlen’s 4.822

“What’s really going to help us is Cruz’s car is running much better and we’ll be able to look at their data more. Two times the information is better than one, so we’ll get it all straightened out.” - Tony Pedregon on his brother and teammate’s performance after suffering a first-round loss to Del Worsham

“What we’re learning is that our windows (for making mistakes) are way too small with this car. We’re going to test so we can learn how to make those windows bigger so that we can get down the track each time.” - Roland Leong, recently re-hired crew chief for Ron Capps, after Capps was ousted from the first round by Phil Burkart

“What do you say? My brain said no but my foot said go. Bottom line, we messed up a chance to close the gap on Baze.” - John Force on going red against Burkart in round two

“We got beat by an outstanding run in the heat of the day and that’s about it.” - Bazemore on Medlen overcoming a holeshot to beat him in round two

“Shut up! Go away! You lost—and on a holeshot, too.” - Scelzi to Medlen during his ESPN2 interview after dusting off the rookie in the semis

“When it spun the tires, I pedaled it and it broke the blower studs. Otherwise, we’d be having a different conversation right now.” - Scelzi on his pedaling contest with Worsham in the final

“Whit’s been to five finals and we’ve only been to three, yet we’re right there with them, which is awesome. But we all know there’s a long way to go and I still say John Force will be in the mix before it’s all said and done.” - Worsham on the points chase after beating Scelzi in the final round

“I was thinking that maybe the bottom half of the field brings out the best in us, we run a little bit harder, try to go a little bit faster, we don’t back down, and we get a little more aggressive.” - Worsham again, on all three of his wins this year coming after he qualified in the lower half of the field