“I fell off a little in the finals, so it was nice to be able to make that up on the tree.”— Jason Line after posting a holeshot win over V. Gaines in the final round at Sonoma
"I had no clue it had been this many races."— Mark Pawuk on being informed he was entering his 400th career event at Sonoma
“This is the shot in the arm that this team needs.”— Greg Anderson after lowering the national E.T. record to 6.631 seconds in picking up his 7th number-one qualifying position this year
"I was happy with the morning run, but the car went hard left, so we didn't take full advantage of the pass."— Line after qualifying second behind his teammate with a career-best 6.636-seconds run on Saturday morning
"I would have to say we're in a better position than we've been, in reality, for over a year-and-a-half. That's when this whole adventure started. When you're constantly looking for an improvement in performance, once in awhile you get off on a tangent, and unfortunately when you do that, it's hard to back up because if some miniscule item yields an improvement in performance, or even if it's the same, you're going to pursue that to the end. The nature being what it is, we didn't recognize where the end was. It's like I said before, we're not stupid; we just do dumb things once in awhile. But every so often, with a little peace and quiet and solitude, you can backtrack how you got to where you are. It's a very methodical process, kind of like CSI. Fortunately, we've been able to identify what's been ailing us."— Warren Johnson after running a career-best 6.644 seconds to qualify 3rd, on the process that got him there
"Fifth is a damned good place to start; we'll take that. That will give us lane choice. The lanes seem to be pretty equal, but you never know what might happen with the nitro cars. It's nice to have that in your back pocket; it makes you feel better on Sunday morning.”— Richie Stevens on the advantages of qualifying well
“We have lane choice tomorrow so things are good right now. As close as these cars are now, that's critical, but this is a track where the lanes are fairly even, and that's what we want to see regardless of if we're on the top or the bottom.”— Kurt Johnson after qualifying 7th
"It's important for us to be racing on Sunday because it gives us another shot at progressing up the standings."— Dave Connolly on breaking into the field in 14th place with his final qualifying attempt
"I don't know what happened. It's not something that I anticipated. I was ready, and I just can't believe it happened.”— Stevens on leaving .060 too early in his first-round match against Mike Edwards
“He won by a couple of hundredths of a second, but in Pro Stock that's the equivalent of an hour or two.”— Pawuk on his opening-round loss to Line
“It's disappointing when you lose by a margin as .001 hurts—worse than if I'd lost by a mile.”— Anderson on his narrowest of losses to Allen Johnson in round two