“This is my first win as a married man and my wife and son are here today, so that makes it even more special."— Andrew Hines after handily defeating Matt Guidera in the final round
“In previous years, a hundredth wasn't all that big of a deal. But now you'd practically give a finger for a hundredth.”— Tom Bradford after qualifying second, on failing to improve in his final qualifying attempt
"I'm ready to go racing.”— Angelle Sampey after qualifying 3rd
"There's really no reason why we can't run a .30 here. We still have room for improvement in the front half of the track. I think we could use a better clutch setup to gives us less initial spin and more wheel speed through first gear.”— Ryan Schnitz on his tune-up strategy after qualifying 5th
"It's not the first time that's happened and it won't be the last. We'll both just have to go out there and do our jobs and see what happens.”— Antron Brown after qualifying 6th, on starting from the same side of the ladder as teammate Sampey
“Every inline four-cylinder Suzuki motorcycle out here was at a distinct disadvantage against the V-Twin Harleys and Buells, who ultimately had something like nine hundredths of a second edge over the rest of us. Remember, those V-Twins run 160 cubic inch engines while we’re limited to 101, and in this thin air that makes a tremendous
difference.”— Steve Johnson after barely making it in at 16th place in qualifying
"We broke a shift shaft during that run. I couldn't shift into high gear. It was a bad day for my bike.”— G.T. Tonglet on what went wrong in his first-round match against Schnitz
“We knew we couldn’t match him in terms of power, but if we made a good run and he had a problem, or made an error, I thought we had a chance of advancing, but that didn’t happen.”— Johnson after losing to Chip Ellis in the opening round on raceday
"We have no idea why the bike spun like that at this point. We pulled clutch out that round to keep that from happening, so there's just no accounting for that in our tune-up. But that's what ultimately cost us the round.”— Bradford on his loss to Guidera in round two
"The bike kind of got out of the groove a little bit in round two. I had to lean off the side to guide it back in, and that does scrub off some E.T.”— Schnitz after Geno Scali took the win from him in the second round
"It was a good race, that's all we could ask for.”— Sampey after being ousted by her teammate Brown in the second round
"It was a complete team effort. We worked so well in the hot conditions that we faced here this weekend and we tuned the bike correctly from the first hit (Sunday). My dad and brother stared at the computer nonstop through qualifying, trying to figure out what it would take to make this bike go fast. It worked."— Hines sharing the credit after his win and moving past Sampey into the points lead
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