
"This place must favor girls.”— Karen Stoffer on overcoming a holeshot by Geno Scali in the final, after Angelle Sampey set a new national E.T. record of 6.939 seconds in qualifying number one
"It appears that I simply staged too shallowly. That means I didn't move into the second and final staging beam fully enough. I just got too much of a run at the lights, so when I let the clutch out the bike moved quicker than I anticipated it would, and that was that.”— Steve Johnson on giving away the first round with a .162 redlight against Antron Brown
"You can't cut a .020 or .030 light anymore and expect to win. You have to cut a teen or better and sometimes that isn't even enough. And you have to do that consistently every round. We haven't done that the last two rounds of eliminations and it's kinda caught up to us.”— Ryan Schnitz after leaving with a .034 reaction in the opening round, but losing to a Craig Treble holeshot
"I think that door falling on my head knocked some sense into me because I've been driving great all season.”— Stoffer after her third career win, referring to an accident at Las Vegas late last year when her race transporter's rear lift door collapsed on her
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