"I felt I needed to try and see if I could get the Barrett Enterprises car out first.”— Scott Weis after redlighting in round one against Bernstein
"We had a fuel system malfunction and the motor dropped a cylinder and the car slowed down.”— Donnie Bender, crew chief for Dixon, explaining what went wrong in the first round against Doug Herbert
“We win and lose as a team but I have to tell you, this one hurts on a personal level.”— Baca after losing to a holeshot by Kalitta in round one
“We just didn’t have enough steam.”— J.R. Todd after losing to Melanie Troxel in the first round
"That caught us by surprise.”— Cory Mac on going up in smoke against Lucas in round one 
"It was a good race for the fans, but from a driver point of view, I'm disappointed that we came up short."— Hillary Will after losing a very close round-one match against teammate David Grubnic
“We have all the right tools here to run as well as anybody, now we just have to figure out how to put it all together.”— Herbert after falling to Lucas in round two
"I felt like I left well, but it's one of those things that didn't show up in the reaction times.”— Troxel after losing to a holeshot by Rod Fuller in the second round
“The car ran right with him and then it hiked the front end up in the air around 500 feet of the run. The last stages of the clutch were coming through making the front end hang up there for a little while, but it shot over to the right. If we were going to get by Bernstein I had to try to steer as best as I could and eventually got it back over in the groove. By that time, it was too late and you lose a lot of ground when you're running all over the racetrack.”— Lucas describing his semi-final loss to Bernstein
"As always, when you get to the finals, you clearly want to finish the deal.”— Schumacher expressing disappointment after going up in smoke early in the final against Bernstein
“We really didn't want to beat ourselves. We just wanted to run well and take the win light.”
— Bernstein on defeating