"We struggled this weekend. The car wasn't running good and I wasn't driving good.” -- Dave Connolly after falling to Greg Stanfield in the second round
“We had a small mechanical problem—a valve spring—otherwise I think I might have got him on the top end. But it wasn't to be. Also, as the reaction times indicate, I wasn't as good as I should have been up front. No room for error in the Pro Stock class." -- Jason Line explaining his round-two loss to Edwards
“For a reason we have yet to identify, the engine had been backfiring throughout the day, and even caught fire in the pits twice. As if that wasn't enough, when I got out of the car at the top end after the second round, I noticed a quarter-inch stream of what appeared to be
oil behind the car, which turned into a puddle after the car sat for a few seconds. Apparently [it broke the oil pan] when I hit the chutes and the car bounced. Looking back, maybe we should have changed engines, but we had just run low elapsed time of the round with that motor, so we decided to repair it instead. We used a combination of some UltraWeld (an instant sealing epoxy), a piece of an aluminum Hawaiian Punch can and some tape, and managed to patch it up in time for the semis. We also replaced the starter, since we weren't sure if it played a role in the engine backfiring. I have to commend my crew, because they never gave up, working through our problems and making sure we made it to the line in time. Unfortunately, it backfired again under the tower and blew the gasket out of the intake manifold, which certainly didn't help our run. I let the clutch out and it spun the tires a little bit, which might have hurt the reaction time. But even so, it still felt good. Unfortunately, we slowed by three hundredths from the last round and it cost us.”
-- K. Johnson on his teams trials and tribulations after coming up short against Stevens in the semis
"We just missed the setup in the semi finals. Obviously the track changed a lot and we weren't ready for it, so it got us.” -- Stanfield after Edwards got past him and into the final round
"It really shook the tires; I would've bet any amount of money it would never do that. I guess I picked the wrong lane (left), but I had been over there all day and I had the fastest car in the semis. The track was a little cooler and I thought it would be fine. It just wasn't meant to be.” -- Edwards after falling just .026 short of Stevens in the final round
"I wanted to be the first Don Schumacher Pro Stock driver to win, but Jeggie (Coughlin) beat me to that last year. Maybe I'll be the first to win twice.” -- Stevens looking to the future after picking up his fifth career win after appearing in 10 final rounds 
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