"When you have a (losing) streak like we had, you just have to suck it up. You know what it takes, you know you can do it, you know you have everything, you know you have the people behind you. It's just a matter of trying to be perfect on race day in the car, controlling what you can control, and staying very positive, and that's what our team did. Everyone on the team controlled what they had to control perfectly. And when you do that you're in the winner's circle."— Whit Bazemore sharing the credit after picking up his first win since the spring race at Las Vegas last year
"I'd say this is the textbook example of preparation meeting opportunity. We had the opportunity to go out there and make a good run and Mother Nature opened the door for all the teams out there. We were prepared.”— Mike Ashley after qualifying a career-best 4th at Seattle
“It's too bad we didn't hold onto the top spot, but that's really the least of my concerns. I don't care if we're 16th; I just want us to win round one tomorrow. After that, we'll worry about round two."— Phil Burkart Jr., who wound up 5th on the qualifying list, referring to being in the number-one spot after Friday’s two sessions
"We need to take him out. We don't need to have somebody else try to do it for us. We need to do it. So, we'll go up meaner than a snake tomorrow and see what happens.”— Gary Scelzi after qualifying 11th, on facing John Force in the opening round on raceday
“It makes me want to take off my Brut firesuit and crawl up into the grandstands with the fans and watch, because that's the kind of match-up the fans come to see. I hope they're way up in front of us (in the staging lanes) tomorrow so I get to watch it.”— Ron Capps, who qualified 3rd, on the pairing of his teammate Scelzi, the defending Funny Car champion, against 13-time class champ Force
"Honestly, we struggled here a little bit, especially today.”— Bazemore after qualifying 12th, on missing Saturday’s first session after a major oiling problem during warmup, then blowing off the tires in his final qualifying attempt
“We're sneaking up on some new approaches to tuning, kind of experimenting as we race, so if we're guilty of anything right now it's that we're taking baby steps. If you make big moves, and smoke the tires, you don't know how far overboard you went, so you're not learning much. We're taking small steps, to see what it will do, and we're getting there.”— Del Worsham after qualifying in the 14th position
"Unfortunately, we picked a lousy time to have a tough weekend.”— Tommy Johnson Jr. after losing traction against Tony Pedregon in round one of eliminations
"You can't just jump to the top of the mountain without climbing it. Right now we are climbing to the top and I can see the peak. We'll be there before you know it and it's just a matter of time.”— Ashley on his team’s progress despite falling to Tony Bartone in the first round
“Scelzi did his job and I got a spanking.”— Force after Scelzi left first, then outran him in round one
