ACT Late Model Tour: Emily Packard
Canaan Fair Speedway Race Report
CANAAN, N.H. – Emily Packard of East Montpelier, Vt., met with a couple rounds of tough luck at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, N.H., finishing 28th in the ACT Late Model Tour 150 on Saturday, June 15. Packard qualified through the first round in the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks/Berlin Optical Expressions Ford Fusion, but the 16-year-old driver was spun at the hands of two other competitors in separate incidents before the race was even 30 laps old. With heavy damage to the car itself, Packard retired from the event early.
WHO: Emily Packard, East Montpelier, Vt.
CREW CHIEF: Neal Woodward, Georgia, Vt.
TEAM: Emily Packard Motorsports No. 9x Northstar Fireworks/Berlin Optical Expressions Chevrolet
SPONSORS: Northstar Fireworks, Fecteau Homes, Berlin Optical Expressions, Yipes! of Barre, VT Shifter Karts, GossCars.com, Be The Match, Rutland Regional Medical Center, R.G. Paving
WHAT: ACT Late Model Tour 150
WHERE: Canaan Fair Speedway, Canaan, N.H. (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 17th
FINISHED: 28th
NEXT RACE: June 20, Late Model 50, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl, Barre, Vt. (.25-mile oval)
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EMILY, WHAT HAPPENED?
The (No. 51) was up on top of the track, riding on top of the wall. I saw him getting into it with some other guys and they were beating and banging quite a bit. When I saw him slowing down, I thought something had happened to his car. I went to go by him on the inside, and he came right down and clipped my right rear and turned me right into the wall.
The car was really bad. Really, really bad. The entire right front suspension is done. We had to saws-all the rim just so we could get the lugnuts off. It’s in really bad shape. It needs a whole new front clip.
HOW WAS THE CAR DURING THE DAY?
We were a little tight on new tires in practice, but the car was really fast. We had a great heat race. We ran on the outside for half of it with (eventual race winner Joey Polewarczyk Jr.), had the lead for a couple of laps. Unfortunately, we just couldn’t finish up up there.
We fell back to third. We got a minus-one, which wasn’t too bad but we could have gotten more out of it. It stinks because the car was so good all day.