“He flat drove away from me for 700 feet and then he disappeared and I saw his win light come on. I had no idea that he hit the cone. The guys got on the radio and said, 'Yeah, you lost on a holeshot,' and I thought, ‘God, that's just devastating.’ Then they got back on the radio and said I won. I thought, ‘These guys, why would they be playing with me like that?’”
— Gary Scelzi on being awarded the victory after fellow finalist Robert Hight drifted across the centerline and took out the 1,000-foot marker
"To have a race car go down the race track four times and not run any slower than 4.75 is phenomenal. Every time we've done that in the past—and I probably shouldn't even say this—we’ve had a really good car on Sunday.”— Scelzi on his four qualifying attempts, culminating in a 4.692 at a career-best 333.49 mph to lead the quickest Funny Car field in NHRA history 
"I was surprised that when we ran .70 flat that we were number three, because I thought Force ran the same (he and Force did post identical 4.709-seconds E.T.s), but they said we beat him on speed. That's something else you never heard about the Brut car in the past, that we would have beaten someone on speed, because the last two years we didn't."— Ron Capps expressing excitement after his career-best 331.45 mph boosted him ahead of the 326.40 by John Force in the last qualifying session
“It was zinging along, on its way to a much better number than the 4.75, when all of sudden it started to sound sour. If this had been one of the first three sessions, I probably would have lifted, but getting into the show from outside the field is the same as winning a round
out here so I just thought to myself 'This is why I wear this fire suit and all this other stuff' and I kept my foot down. We beat it up pretty badly, but we got in and we'll be racing.”— Arend after running a career-best 4.759 in the final session to break into the field in 11th place
“It's unbelievable that we come out here and the same horror show we lived through last year is right back in my face, missing by inches or missing by a thousandth or two.”— Worsham reflecting back to his 2006 troubles after not getting into the Pomona field by just two thousandths of a second
“It was an exciting race, a little strange. I got the experience. Dad was proud that I didn't get in over my head and cross over the centerline or slam into the wall or do something dramatic. He told me, 'You might have lost, but at least you were safe about it.'"— Ashley Force after shutting off early with tire shake in her career-opening round of Funny Car competition against teammate and brother-in-law Hight