"We really thought that time would stay in." -- Cory McClenathan on going 4.704 in the final session to place 11th at the time before five more drivers ran quicker and he wound up 17th and out of the program for the first time in two years
"It was somewhere down track that we started to spin the tires a little bit and it wasn't until it actually ate the teeth off of the blower belt that he started to nose past me there in the last 100 feet of the run. Not having lane choice may have played a part in us losing, but we did the same thing in Indy, so there may be something mechanically wrong with the car, or something else that we are doing wrong.” -- Melanie Troxel on getting nipped at the finish line by David Baca in round one
"We simply overpowered the track.” -- Vandergriff on his tire-smoking loss to Rod Fuller in the first one
“I left and didn't see him so I knew he was either right next to me or I was ahead of him. The car felt like it was on a good run most of the way, then all of a sudden I felt the tires start to spin. I thought, ‘Oh no!’ I felt like I was standing still. J.R. passed by me and that was it." -- Hillary Will on her loss to fellow rookie Todd in the opening round on Sunday
"The track was not what we've come to expect from an NHRA-prepared track.” -- Jim Oberhofer, crew chief for Will, on the all-concrete Motorplex racing surface
“All we had to do was get it to repeat but the track went away from us a little bit and we were just a touch too aggressive.” -- Baca on smoking the tires in a second-round loss to Fuller
"That was a nail-biter. You normally don't want to meet Doug as early as the second round, but if you want to gain points, you need to try to defeat him early in the day." -- Bernstein on getting past Kalitta in round two