"There were some really extreme conditions throughout the weekend, with it being very, very hot on Friday, not so hot but miserable on Saturday, then cool on Sunday, which caused us to fall behind a bit on our setups. It was challenging for the crew chiefs, to say the least.” -- Cruz Pedregon after his round-two loss to Hight
"I tell you, I cut a tire pretty good down there. It's like the third time this weekend that we've run over something. It's cut the front tire as well as the rear tire. There is obviously stuff being left on the track. It's not the reason we lost, but it definitely made it an issue. The car did a big wiggle down there before the finish line and cut the tires pretty bad, the front and
the rear." -- Capps after losing to teammate Ashley in the second round
"We're not sure what happened on that semifinal run. We haven't smoked the tires that early all season long. It's something mechanical, it's not a tune-up issue.” -- Johnson Jr. on going up in smoke against Ashley in the semis
“This weekend we were a little too aggressive in a couple of areas and got beat by Robert because we were trying to run too hard. The climate threw a curve at us as well with the drastically changing conditions from Friday to Sunday.” -- T. Pedregon after a semi-final loss to Hight
"This was the battle the Funny Car fans deserved. We were on a collision course all weekend.” -- Ashley on his final-round meeting with Hight, who bumped him from the top qualifying spot in the final session
"To win one race is a big deal. To win two in a row is pretty awesome.” -- Hight after picking up his third event win this year and the fifth of his career
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"I can barely talk. It's been a long time since I've won. I forgot what I'm supposed to do.” -- Richie Stevens after edging Mike Edwards for his first win since Englishtown in 2001
"Tonight the vapor pressure dropped like a lead balloon, the air dried out and we made the big change that we had been looking for tomorrow. That's why you saw so many cars pick up tonight and the speeds all jumped up there.” -- Greg Anderson after securing his fifth-straight number-one qualifying position and his 11th this year
“If I wouldn't have improved on that last run, I think I would've been 16th in the show, and it was number four going into the session, so 12 cars improved. That's hard on the heart, but the ACDelco Cobalt made a good run, went 6.72, and hopefully if everything goes right we can go a few rounds tomorrow." -- Kurt Johnson on starting from the 5th position
"It came down to one session and we just flat-out missed the set-up. We knew the conditions were awesome and we wanted to put a big number up there. It was just a little too much for the track to hold at that particular point in time. If we had been five more pairs back, it might have stuck. The track was getting better by the minute." -- Erica Enders after DNQing, on her last-chance qualifying attempt late on Saturday afternoon
"We had a huge swing in (atmospheric) conditions from Saturday's last qualifying run to Sunday. We knew in our minds exactly what we wanted to do to the car but we came up three-thousandths of a second short. We thought it would run much faster but the car just didn't respond. We missed the ultimate combination.” -- Jim Yates on coming up just a fraction short of Edwards in round one
“All I had to do was be solid and concentrate on that light. Somehow my concentration was broken. I don't know when or how. I didn't think I missed the light but the timing slip says otherwise. So I did, and now I've got to take the consequences.” -- Anderson after losing to a big .047 holeshot by Dave Northrop in the opening round
