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A16 LOCAL
Monday 24 July 2017
After Mid-America Nationals, Team Aruba Takes Time to Reset

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Team were facing.”
Aruba recently completed Despite the unfortunate
the fifth stop on the 2017 early exit from the Mid-
PDRA Tour at the historic America Nationals, Eman
Lucas Oil Raceway at Indi- and team are still in good
anapolis over the weekend condition to make a bid for
of July 15 and 16 . The hot the 2017 PDRA Extreme Pro
th
th
and humid condition made Stock Championship.
for a tough weekend for “Our hope was to come
the Aruba.com Mustang. out of this race with the
Despite qualifying a very points lead. That did not
respectable fourth with a happen, but we’ll do ev-
4.097 effort, Trevor Eman erything we can to catch
fell in round one to Matt back up.
Giangrande. Giangrande “On the up side, we had
pulled out his best number the chance to interact with
of the weekend, a 4.184, new fans. Being a new lo-
enough for a narrow vic- cation for us to race, we
tory over Eman. could introduce our para-
“We had a very disappoint- dise home to more people,
ing weekend,” confessed which is one of the things
Eman. “We had a good we love most to do.
momentum through the “The engine will be going
first races of the year. Los- unexpected. Our team to get the car down the the Racepak computer ev- back for its scheduled re-
ing first round this race was worked hard all weekend track as fast as possible. On erything looked the way it fresh and hopefully we can
was supposed to. It almost turn things around in Tulsa
seems like the Mustang in a couple of weeks. There
didn’t have the energy are still three events left
this weekend in the poor and we plan to make the
weather conditions we most of them.”q