Team Aruba Determined to Earn First Victory After VMP Performance

Courtesy of Team Arruba

UNION, SC — “Virginia Motorsports Park?Hello from Aruba!” A nice and sunny weekend at Virginia Motorsports Park (VMP) proved to be a beautiful racing weekend. Team Aruba’s driver, Trevor Eman happily said, “It feels like we are racing in Aruba!”

As always, Team Aruba’s pit area is a reflection of the island Aruba and the Aruban People. “We’re having fun, but the weekend is not over yet. We have a lot of work ahead of us, and we have to do well to be in the show with the other 19 Mountain Motor Pro Stock teams,” says Eman, a full-time college student and the youngest Mountain Motor Pro Stock driver. “Let’s go racing…And a warm ‘Hello’ from Aruba!”

VMP hosted nice weather and even nicer people. These conditions must have really worked, because Trevor did a first qualifying run of 4.10 seconds as the third pair out. “We came pretty close to beating our career-best elapsed time,” says Trevor, who was only a hundredth and a half seconds off of his best ET. “We were at the 60-foot mark in 0.984 seconds; not a bad first run.” 

Even so, the team faced some complications in the third qualifying round. “We had a little trouble at the start of the third qualifying round,” Trevor admits. “The car pulled towards the wall just a bit; something that also happened to a few other drivers.” “We had a great light, but Martino had the better run.” The team was, however, not entirely satisfied with their performance at VMP, giving the team even more determination to win at their next race. “We’ll be heading back to Martin in a few weeks to compete in   the ADRL Summer Drags. We’ll be working hard over the next few weeks to prepare for the race. Hopefully our performance will drastically improve.”

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