"We're pleased, but know we need to pick it up for tomorrow.”— Kurt Johnson after finishing 9th in qualifying
“We're missing something somewhere. The weather is just magnifying it. The conditions are making it just that much more apparent that we're missing something.”— Richie Stevens Jr. expressing concern for raceday despite qualifying 11th
"We just weren't able to run quick enough.”— Mike Tomas on missing the qualifying list by .013 seconds
“I'm duplicating my driving (in each round), so now we can work on the car. Before they couldn't do that because I changed so much every pass. But now I think we're going to work on different engine stuff. We've had some clutch issues we've been working with, mostly because of my driving. Now that we've got that situated I think we have the window figured out on the clutch.”— Shaun Carlson after again wrapping up qualifying in the DNQ column
"This is one of those situations where we're both pleased and disappointed.” — Mark Pawuk on qualifying for the first time in his last four attempts, but losing in round one to Gaines
"This is such a competitive class. It's frustrating. You try and try and try and it's like we're missing a piece of the puzzle and we don't know what it is. We have to find it and quick." — Stevens, after Rickie Smith overcame his holeshot to win in the opening round
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“Being close doesn't make it feel any better. A loss is a loss."— Jason Line on losing by six thousandths to Allen Johnson in the first round—after both ran identical passes of 6.852 seconds
"We made an adjustment for the track temperature in the second round and were just a little too aggressive. As a result, it pulled the motor down at the hit of the throttle, which killed both the reaction time and 60-foot time.”— Warren Johnson on his loss in round two against Anderson
"Once again, I got beat on a holeshot. As I said in Columbus, ‘There is no excuse for that.’”— Anderson on losing to a holeshot by K. Johnson in the semis
"It's not that we relaxed or lost focus—in fact I let the clutch out the same way I had all day. Unfortunately, the tree was a little quick coming on, and I may even have blinked, but the bottom line is that things just didn't work out.”— K.J. on being outgunned on the tree for the first time all day in the final against Connolly
"For me, the car's been so easy to drive. I can really not worry about it and concentrate on what they pay me to do, which is drive the car and leave on my opponents.”— Connolly on the change he’s felt since Tommy Utt took over as crew chief from three events ago
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