“Just past half track it was blowing fuel all over the windshield. I could see him (Force) out the window and with these Mustangs, if you can see them they’ve got you beat.”— Eric Medlen after losing to the boss in the semi finals
“We tried to go for the record in the final … It was on a great run at 330 feet. It had everything in it, but it was hurting before half-track. I still stayed with it. It wasn’t until my blower belt came off that he (Force) got around me. It was kind of an odd race.”— Robert Hight on his narrow loss to his teammate and father-in-law in the final round
"It's a lot of wins, but no one cares what you did in the past. We've won one race this year, and we gained some big points today, so that's important.”— Force on taking his 120th event title, but more importantly, edging closer to points leader Capps
"You throw the helmets on and you're all-star boxers out there, and when you get to the finish line you take them off and you can talk, you're buddies. That's the way it should be. We're not rubbing paint, so it's not really getting too serious out there, but you try your hardest.”— Kurt Johnson on earning a holeshot win over former teammate and continuing friend Greg Anderson in the final round with a career-best 6.646/207.46 against Anderson's 6.641 at 208.10 mph
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"That was the best drag race I've ever been a part of. I shoved it in high gear and peeked over and we were dead even. I thought there was no way I could do anything else to get ahead because he has the exact same stuff as we do. Somehow I crept ahead by an inch or two in the last hundred feet.”— Anderson after beating teammate Jason Line in the final of the King Demon Crown, a special event run in conjunction with the national event at Route 66, and running 6.620 seconds at 208.20 mph, the quickest E.T. ever recorded by an NHRA Pro Stock car
“I'm feeling pretty good about it; the car has been running awesome and it's so consistent right now. We're definitely getting our stuff together here at Team Mopar/Valspar.”— Richie Stevens after earning his 4th career pole with a track-record-breaking and career-best 6.635-second pass at 207.40 mph
"I can't say whether the loss of the final qualifying session had that much of an effect, although we all certainly would have liked to have another shot at the track. The atmospheric conditions were a tad worse than they were earlier today so the some of the teams who had the misfortune to be outside of the field would have had their work cut out for them, unless they made a gross error this morning.”— Warren Johnson after qualifying 12th, on the shortened qualifying schedule