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Tuesday 11 april 2017
Team Aruba Flies to the Number One Spot

BENSON, N.C. - Trevor Eman bye thanks to his top quali- and love to share that with
and the Extreme Pro Stock fying spot. He had another people everywhere.”
team from Aruba showed amazing reaction time, While the Aruba.com Mus-
they mean business this .005, and was set to meet tang will return to its sta-
season at the recent PDRA multi-time world champion bles in Union, S.C, Eman
East Coast Nationals, the Cary Goforth in the semi- returned home to his wife,
team’s first race of the finals. Nicole and their new baby
season.The Aruba Airport Although Eman put togeth- daughter, Elana.
Authority backed team er a strong run with a 4.046 The team will be back in
qualified at the top of the elapsed time, Goforth action for the PDRA Spring
Extreme Pro Stock pack, would get to the finish line Nationals, May 18-20 at
their 4.04 effort flying past first. Although Eman and Darlington Dragway.
the other 13 cars present. the team had hoped for “We’re excited to race
The Aruba.com Mustang a win, beginning the year at such a historic place
had the top MPH, too, at with a number one qualify- as Darlington. We hope
178.24. The team moved ing award and a semi-final to continue our momen-
into eliminations with lane finish provided a strong tum there and get our first
choice, which proved to base for the season. which made conditions dif- people to the ease and win of the season.” Follow
be helpful with the uncer- “It would have been nice ficult. The team did a won- accessibility of an Aruban Team Aruba on Facebook
tain weather conditions of to get past Cary and make derful job changing our vacation,” Eman contin- and Twitter. Find race re-
the weekend. Eman used it to the finals at GALOT,” Kaase-powered Mustang ued. “It’s always special for sults, team updates, vid-
an incredible .009 reaction told Eman, “but it was cer- to get down the track and us to talk about our island eos and photos. Also leave
time and driving prowess to tainly a nice first outing and win rounds. home to people who have your comments to cheer
get down the track ahead will give us a good place to “Another great take-away never considered visiting on Team Aruba! For more
of his opponent, Rocky work from moving on to the from the weekend was that there before. on your Aruba vacation
Watford, in round one. In next event. we got to meet many new We are passionate about visit www.Aruba.com and
round two, Eman had the The weather was tricky, fans and introduce more ‘The One Happy Island’ www.airportaruba.com.q