“It's an old race, it's historic, East Coast; everything about it is big. It's a dream come true.” — Ron Capps on earning his 22nd career victory at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park
"You know I think I'm still dreaming. I want someone to pinch me or kick me to see if I wake up. Doing it here in Englishtown, more or less my home track for the last 20 years and having family and friends make a special moment even more special." — Tony Bartone, from North Hills, NY, on securing his career-first number-one qualifying position with a 4.787 at 324.76 mph
"If this track gets slick, like it was for the first qualifying sessions, there's going to be tire spin, pedaling duels, cars blowing up, all the stuff the fans love. It's a stress test for the drivers when it gets that way, but you do all you can to get the win light. You just go for it." — Del Worsham after qualifying 7th for raceday
"The last run, the 4.86 on Saturday afternoon, was exactly what we were looking for in terms of performance, but it was a little costly. We've been breaking a lot of rods lately, and it did it again right in the lights on that run. It just leveled two rods, vaporized them, and
we're lucky we didn't blow the blower right off the car and have a big old mess on our hands. A bit of the rod debris got in the cylinder head and hung an intake valve open, but lucky for us the engine was pretty much dead by then anyway. Like I said, we were lucky to get away with just a lot of mangled aluminum." — Worsham again, on his final qualifying attempt
"We had a rough weekend. We came in here with the new car and it wasn't reacting like we wanted it to run, so we had to make a decision to switch chassis back to the other car in the middle of qualifying. That's a pretty big move to make in the middle of a race. It paid off. The car went right back to where we were.” — Tommy Johnson Jr. on being outside the top 16 as Saturday’s qualifying began, but ending up with the 10th-place starting spot
“I don't think lane choice will be a big deal here, so I'm pretty pumped up." — Capps on qualifying 14th and being scheduled to race Jim Head in the opening round
