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Wednesday 24 May 2017

Difficult Weekend Turned Triumphant for Team Aruba

DARLINGTON, S.C. (May cult round after round. This
22, 2017): The PDRA Spring win wasn’t handed to the
Nationals at Darlington team; it was earned with
Dragway felt much more hard work.
like summer, with air tem- “It was a very long day,
peratures hovering around but the team worked as
90 degrees fahrenheit and hard as I have ever seen us
track temps up to 150 de- work together,” told Eman.
grees. Such conditions of- Those efforts put us and our
ten makes it tricky to navi- partners, Aruba.com and
gate the 660 feet of race Aruba Airport Authority, in
track. the winner’s circle.
Trevor Eman and the Aru- Not only does the entire
ba.com team initially had that day in 1987 in his Pro heavy hitters in the field would move the team into team want to be winning
trouble perfecting a hot Stock machine seemed to and no one would be an the semi finals. There he rounds and races, but we
weather setup that would fuel the Aruba.com team easy win. The team picked met Cary Goforth. These have a great team dy-
get the Aruba.com Mus- to push through the heat. up the pace during elimi- two met at the last event namic in representing our
tang down the surface They qualified fifth with a nations, using a 4.092 to in the semi-finals. Goforth partners. Aside from the ef-
that once gave birth to the 4.099. get past Dwayne Rice in won that matchup, so in fort on working on the race
first ever quarter-mile sanc- Being in the top half of the round one, before slowing the Darlington heat Eman car in between rounds
tioned run over 200 MPH by field certainly helped on slightly to a 4.106 in round was ready for his revenge. and getting it ready, we
a doorslammer. What Bill race day, but Eman and two. It was Eman’s reac- Both drivers had incred- always make sure to take
Kuhlmann accomplished team knew there were 15 tion time advantage that ible reaction times, but the the time to talk to our fans
Aruba.com team made all about Aruba and the ease
the right calls, picking up to of traveling to our slice of
a 4.085 to Goforth’s 4.109. paradise.
Team Aruba would be go- “As we went rounds yes-
ing to their first final of the terday, we had more and
season. more people come by,”
In the finals they took on he continued. “It was great
Buddy Perkinson, hired gun to have the fans follow
Located in the Riu Antilles Resort (Formerly the Westin Resort) of Enoch Love. us closely. Along with our
fans at the track, plenty of
Perkinson got off the line
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using a 4.079 to score their
first victory of 2017. was following us ‘til the late
GAMES START 8 PM TO THE WEE HOURS “It was great to face the hours of the night when we
E Love team in the final,” ran the final.”

1-2.....2-5......5-5 1-3.....2-5......5-5 said the Spring Nation- In addition to the heat
and tricky track conditions,
als Champ. “We have a
$100 HIGH HAND BONUSES EVERY HOUR very good and close his- Team Aruba ran into a me-
OVER $20,000 PER WEEK GIVEN OUT IN HIGH HAND BONUSES tory with Enoch Love and chanical issue. “We were
in a pinch with what we
it was great to see him at
CRAPS the race track and to meet suspected to be a shock
issue this weekend,” Eman
them and the Perkinson
ONLY CASINO IN ARUBA TO OFFER 3, 4 & 5 TIME ODDS family in the final. My hats explained, “and we had
off to Team Elove and Per- the opportunity of hav-
kinson for their efforts this ing Adam and Andy Lam-
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Shocks come by and look
“Every round is a hard
LIVE SIMULCAST OF ALL MAJOR TRACKS round to win in the Pro at things and sort through
some stuff with us. We were
THROUGHOBRED AND HARNESS Stock class,” continued
Eman. “Every round is just very grateful for their sup-
as difficult if not more diffi- port on race day.”q