"I feel like I kind of earned it. It definitely didn't come easily, and, at the same time, it shows to everyone out here that the Pro Stock class is insane from a competitive standpoint.”
— Shaun Carlson after qualifying 12th, on finally making it into the elimination rounds in the fifth event of his rookie season
"We finally have this Summit Pontiac back on track, but the driver didn't do his job. The car is happy, the driver isn't."— Anderson on losing to a holeshot by Greg Stanfield in round one
"We'll have to look at the data to see if I turned the steering wheel that way. But now that I have my hand on the wheel where I need it, I don't think that was the problem."— Carlson on having to abort his first-round race against Jim Yates when his car veered drastically to the right off the start
"The car shook really bad in second gear and I shifted a little late because of it. I was trying to settle it down, and in that situation it seems you either go too early or too late, so you're
damned if you do and damned if you don't.”— Stevens on his second-round loss to Yates
“Anytime you outrun somebody you should beat them. But Kurt's (Johnson) good and fun to race, and anytime you race those guys you have to definitely be on the ball. Otherwise, you're going home and that proved it right there.”— Jason Line on losing to a holeshot by K. Johnson in the semis
“We left a little bit on the table and I feel bad that I didn't do a better job of driving the car and get a win there.”— Yates on coming up short due to Connolly’s holeshot against him in the semis
"Qualifying in the top half is what got us to the final … We got a few breaks and won on some holeshots. We have a bunch of power under the hood now and that really pulled us through. We just need to improve our 60-foot times."— Connolly confirming his earlier belief after winning his first three rounds with holeshots—then nearly doing it again in the final against K.J.
“To be able to keep the consecutive streak going is pretty cool because you never know if you're going to win again. You're just glad when it happens.”— K. Johnson on extending his streak of scoring at least one win per season to 12 straight years (the longest among active drivers in the class)
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