— Clay Millican after securing the 10th-place starting position |
We've certainly been in worse spots. 
“I want to win every race I'm in, but this one more than ever. I was wondering how long it would take me to win a trophy and give it to his family. I guess Eric was watching over me today.”— J.R. Todd after beating first-time finalist Joe Hartley to earn his second race title this year and his fifth in just 23 NHRA starts
"We're disappointed not to have ran on Saturday. We'd much rather have lost the top spot and gotten the track time.”— Whit Bazemore on the rained out qualifying sessions despite getting his career-first Top Fuel pole with a 4.514/ 326.87 pass on Friday
"Once I get my act together on the starting line, things will be great. Last year, one way or another, when the car was on, I was off and when the car was off, I was on. This year it seems to be easier to put the two together.”— Morgan Lucas expressing optimism after qualifying 4th in the rain-shortened sessions
"The two qualifying passes that we got on Friday put me in both the left lane and the right lane and enabled me to get a feel for the track that should help me during eliminations. I'm ready for raceday.”— Hillary Will after qualifying 8th
"We even had trouble with our computer all weekend and had no data, so it was just a roll of the dice when it came to our tune-up. I am glad we are done with this race.”— Cory McClenathan after suffering traction woes in a first-round loss to Bazemore
“That's a tough one. I thought my reaction time was pretty good, but he was clearly a lot better. You have to tip your hat to that team.”— Tony Schumacher on losing to a holeshot by Brandon Bernstein in the opening round
“I felt something funny when I hit the throttle.”— Rod Fuller after losing to Bruce Litton in round one
"We aren't mad about it. We have been working on our new clutch setup and we are making progress. We have seven runs on it compared with about 700 on our old one. We
are getting closer to where we want to be."— Mike Kloeber, crew chief for Millican, after losing to Todd in the first round
"There's a new way to lose all the time. The car shook and I pedaled it. The car shook and the helmet moved on my head, so essentially I couldn't see. So, I'm taking the helmet home and we're going to get it fixed. I've never had that happen before. It would have been hard to beat him anyway.”— Bazemore after falling short of Hartley in round two
"We had a car that was running very well, but unfortunately when the conditions change like this and you don't have lane choice, it throws things up in the air.”— Melanie Troxel after going up in smoke in round two against Todd
"I've never wanted to win a race as bad as I did today. I wanted to prove that we could win after Jimmy went over to Bernstein. I think a lot of people thought it was over for us. We have a great bunch of guys and a great team. That is what it takes."— Todd on the added motivation after former crew chief Jimmy Walsh was hired away by Kenny Bernstein shortly after the season began
