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LOCALSaturday 25 June 2016
Team Aruba Goes to Back-to-Back Finals
ORANJESTAD/UNION, S.C. - finals where Eman would end up tagging the left re- age to the car was easily re- “They put everything aside
Back to back events gener- face reigning champ, Cary taining wall. Nothing major, pairable.†to help us get our equipment
ally make for a hectic few Goforth. Once again, Eman but, as we all know, as soon Although damage to the fixed in record time. Without
weeks under the best of cir- was out of the gate first, an as that happens you are dis- Aruba.com Mustang was their help we would have
cumstances. For Team Aru- .011 light to Goforth’s slower qualified.†minimal the team was also had a hard time making it to
ba, however, the week in be- .037. The Aruba.com Mus- Eman and team would set- short on time to make the this weekend’s IHRA Cana-
tween the IHRA President’s necessary body and en- dian Nationals. These guys
Cup Nationals and Cana- tang was making it a tight tle for a runner up finish at gine repairs. They would understand that we have
dian Nationals has turned race to the finish line before the President’s Cup Nation- have to be in Grand Bend, two very important partners,
into a major thrash. Highs the weekend’s second hur- als, making it their second Ontario, Canada the very Aruba Tourism Authority and
and lows have marked their dle presented itself. consecutive final round ap- next Thursday. Thanks to the Aruba Airport Authority N.V.,
two-race quest, proving the The car kept pulling to the pearance. “From swapping help of friend, David Linder, whom we are fully commit-
determination of the team is left,†Eman relayed. “I was engines and making it to and Team Aruba’s engine ted to, along with promoting
not to be discounted. trying to steer it back, but it our qualifying round by the builder, Jon Kaase, all repairs
At the President’s Cup Na- just kept drifting to the wall. I skin of our teeth to then go were completed in just 48 our island and its airport. We
tionals, just outside of Balti- thought to myself in the car, to the finals was still satisfy- hours.
more, Maryland at Maryland it will either come back to ing, despite the incident,†“Jon Kaase took our broken were determined to make it
International Raceway, the the groove or I am going to Eman said, retaining his posi- primary motor straight from
team ran into its first hurdle scrape the wall, but I wanted tive outlook. “It put us into Maryland to his shop where to the Canadian Nationals.
when their number one en- us to win so bad I wasn’t giv- the number two spot in the the whole gang of guys at
gine broke during qualifying. ing up. Unfortunately we did points chase and the dam- Jon Kaase Racing Engines Racing in Canada is a first for
They switched to the backup jumped on it and got it re-
motor and completed the paired in two days time,†us and we can’t wait to get
swap just in time to make the Eman added. “We had the
final qualifying session on Sat- motor back at our shop in to know the fans and talk to
urday evening. While some South Carolina by Wednes-
of Pro Stock’s biggest names day afternoon. them about Aruba.
failed to make the tough “On Monday morning when
field, the team from ‘The we made it back to our shop, “We are coming off of back
One Happy Island’ powered a good friend of ours, David
into the number 6 spot with Linder, from Cowpens, South to back final round appear-
a 6.319 effort. From there, Carolina came to assess the
driver Trevor Eman led the damage to the Aruba.com ances and plan on making
way with hole shot wins. His Mustang and got right on it
reaction time advantages, and had the car fixed within the third time the charm!â€
coupled with their Jon Kaase two days time.
Racing Engines power, got “We are very grateful for Watch Team Aruba as they
the team all the way to the these guys,†Eman thanked.
go for their third straight final
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