”I knew when he didn't turn golf on TV he was really serious about what he was doing today.” — Tony Schumacher on crew chief Alan Johnson, who tuned Schumacher to his sixth win at Indy, after beating Larry Dixon Jr. in the final with a 4.575/331.94 combo to Dixon’s engine-eating 4.748 at 268.44 mph
"When the car left, I felt like I had been shot out of a cannon so I knew we were going to be on a quick pass. Heck, we were going over 282 mph at half track.” — Schumacher again, on his Friday-night 4.477-second pass at a track record-setting 333.66 mph that stood up through four more sessions for the number-one qualifying position
"It's nice to be qualified in the top half of the field, but consistency is way more important on raceday.” — Melanie Troxel after qualifying 4th on the basis of her pass on Friday night, which also marked her 35th birthday
"It's going to be near 90 degrees tomorrow and you can throw out those great times we ran at night because it's going to take finesse to figure out the track conditions. The margin is very small and if you're out of the groove by just the slightest bit could cause you problems. That's why it's going to be so important to have the upper hand of having lane choice.” — Morgan Lucas predicting raceday conditions after qualifying in the 8th position
"Well, I guess to say we're disappointed would be a huge understatement.” — Doug Kalitta on missing the bump spot by two thousandths at Indy and DNQing at the U.S. Nats for the first time in his career
“We just struggled here all weekend. We struggled here in testing last weekend and it didn't go away.” — Whit Bazemore on a sub-par showing that left him 18th and out of the show after Indy’s unique five rounds of qualifying
"We got behind early by not getting down the track, especially on the (Friday and Saturday) night qualifying sessions. You can't afford to lose those rounds.” — J.R. Todd after also failing to make the cut for raceday
“We haven’t figured out how to make it down the track on all eight cylinders.” — Doug Herbert after the first round when Rod Fuller avenged his loss to Herbert at the previous race in Reading, PA
“The last thing I expected it to do today was smoke the tires. The track evidently was not quite as good as we thought.” — David Grubnic after losing grip early in round one against Brandon Bernstein
