Lucas Cazemiro, son of Dave and Fabienne of Desoto Speedway

Ford Motor Company and AAA host an annual students skills competition for aspiring automotive technitians, out of 600 applicants statewide, Lucas an his team mate scored high enough to be one of the 10 teams to compete in Orlando this Friday.

The 10 teams were given identical Ford Mustangs with 10 identical problems to find and fix, a time limit of 1 1/2 hours was given.

Well Lucas took 3rd place and came home with bragging rights lots of tools, a 1 year membership in AAA, and $21,000 in scholarship money!:aktion033:

One more note, out of the entire state, Sarasota Co Tech Institute had 3 teams entered in the competition, 33% from 1 school, thats impressive.

Lucas is 17 yo:huepfen024:

(can you tell I am proud?)

Yahooooooooooo!!!

So proud of you Lucas! :huepfen024::huepfen024: WOW! and here i thought you were all muscle and good looks! silly me! I miss you guys alot. But always think of you with fondest memories.
Love you
carol aka oz

Do you know who placed Ist and 2nd? Thanks.

Good JOB Lucas. They say the fruit don’t fall far from the tree and it didn’t.
I am pround of your accomplishmebt. I wish you were around when I had my Mustang. It was a mechanisal night mare. LOL! Good Job buddy. Bob…

Looks like Merrit Island won, thats all I could find!

Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition
Merritt Island High School will be representing the state of Florida in the 2011 National Finals! Congratulations to Sam McLean and Johnny White for winning the state title under the instruction of Steve Chapman

Congratulations!!! I have seen this competition back in 2006. There was another competition for Ford Technicians for the Ultimate Master Technician Challenge going on at the same time. My husband competed that year and finished in 5th place. I was really impressed with the young students.

That’s harder to win than in NASCAR!

[SIZE=“7”]Congrats!!! The future is bright in the Automotive field. Go getem. I’m sure you have made your Family PROUD!!!
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[QUOTE=Bobby Diehl;70833][SIZE=“7”]Congrats!!! The future is bright in the Automotive field. Go getem. I’m sure you have made your Family PROUD!!!
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Indeed he has…we are so proud of our son Lucas! He has a bright future ahead of him…Congratulations Son!!
Dave and Fabienne