“It got wild down there. The front wheels jumped up in the air and it got pretty entertaining for the fans."— Mike Ashley on the second-round qualifying pass that placed him 16th on the list
"There's no question that we've turned the corner. It doesn't mean that we've automatically started winning races yet; we still have to do that. But all it means now is that our car is a contender and it's running well and we have a chance to be competitive on raceday.” — Whit Bazemore on starting from the number-two slot
"It's not exactly as high as we wanted to qualify, but we have lane choice and it's a fresh start Sunday morning.”— Ron Capps on securing the 8th-place starting position
“It makes you feel good when you tell it to do something and it responds. It gives you a little bit of hope in the gloomy clouds.”— Wilkerson on qualifying 15th after suffering DNQs at the previous three events
“To run a 4.871 and get in the show by a thousandth is a little too dramatic, and really pretty fortunate. You can lose a thousandth out there a million ways. Think about it, you can lose more than a hundredth just in how you stage the car, so any little mistake or bobble,
just staging a little too deep or letting the car drift even a foot out of the groove can cost you way more than a thousandth.”— Worsham on beating Frank Pedregon by one-thousandth of a second to take the 16th position in his final qualifying attempt
"There is a lot more season left and we will learn from this experience and move forward."— Mike Ashley on winding up 18th, another one thousandth behind F. Pedregon at 4.873 seconds
"I was a little nervous there, but he had problems and we went by him and took the win. It was a nice opening run."— Johnson Jr. on overcoming a first-round holeshot by Tony Pedregon to take the win
“It was unfortunate that there were some bumps in my lane. When I hit those bumps, the car unloaded and the front of the car bounced. I tried to correct it in the air, and when it came down, it steered to the right.”— T. Pedregon with his view of the loss to Johnson
“We’re just in a situation right now where we’re not doing anything wrong, but we’re not getting results.”— Robert Hight after falling to Burkart in the opening round
"We just were in too big a hole to do much better than that.”— Worsham after losing to Eric Medlen by 24-thousandths of a second in round one
"I don't know whose watch they were using, but I can't believe that was 65 minutes … The fact all eight teams for round two were dashing up there together tells you it was a tough turn-around and our guys did a fantastic job of keeping up with all the crews who had a lot more time than we did.”— Burkart, who beat Hight in the last pairing of the first round, commenting on the shortened time frame between rounds at Bristol
“The air line broke, the bearing never moved, it started knocking timing out of it, a buffet of disasters started happening after that and then Capps was driving away so hard I just shut it off.”— Scelzi on his semi-final loss to teammate Capps
"It was running great, just like we wanted it to run, but it got down there around 900-feet and it tried to pull the front plate right off the blower. The stress stripped the threads right off of one of the bolts that holds the front plate on and when that happens you lose boost and it's over. It's just one of those things that could happen any time, but usually never happens. What stinks for us is that it happened during the one session when everyone was hitting big bombs and we have to try to sleep tonight not in the show. Try is the operative word; it's never easy to sleep on Friday night when you're not in."— Del Worsham on his Friday night qualifying attempt after going up in tire smoke in his first attempt
