{"id":10746,"date":"2012-09-15T07:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10746"},"modified":"2012-09-14T21:36:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T01:36:57","slug":"emily-packard-four-more-invited-to-bond-auto-act-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/emily-packard-four-more-invited-to-bond-auto-act-invitational\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Packard, Four More Invited to Bond Auto ACT Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/NewEnglandRacingNews.com\" title=\"New England Racing News\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/act.jpg\" alt=\"ACT American Canadian Tour\" class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left'><\/a>This week, ACT Late Model teams across the northeast held their breath hoping for the call: an invitation to the 4th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22. No one may have been more satisfied than Vermont teen sensation Emily Packard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were so on edge, I got the call in school today and I\u2019ve been shaking ever since,\u201d said Packard out of breath. \u201cI am so excited about racing up there. We were so happy with the Test \u2018N Tune, I\u2019ve been telling my crew \u2018We have to go to Loudon\u2019 since the winter,\u201d she finished.<br \/>\nPackard and her family team can finally be at ease, as she received one of 11 final invites. The news couldn\u2019t have been any sweeter for the first year Late Model driver.<br \/>\n <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as we walk through that tunnel I\u2019m going to be satisfied,\u201d she said. \u201cObviously we would love a great finish, but just going there is enough for me. I can\u2019t wait!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Packard isn\u2019t the only one who can breathe easy now. Former Canaan Fair Speedway Champion Aaron Fellows has been invited to the 43-car starting grid, and will be joined by rising Oxford Plains Speedway star Dave Farrington, Jr. ACT rookie Ben Lynch will make the trip from North Carolina after a career day in the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road, and a first timer- Thunder Road regular Ricky Roberts- will get a shot at his dream on Saturday, September 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the biggest thing that has ever happened to me,\u201d said a grinning Roberts. \u201cI got so nervous waiting, I kept checking the internet. We are really a low budget team, so the invite is such a big deal for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ACT Teams will be on the big stage at the Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22. Post time is 4:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, ACT Late Model teams across the northeast held their breath hoping for the call: an invitation to the 4th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22. No one may have been more satisfied than Vermont teen sensation Emily Packard. \u201cWe were so on edge, I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,112,16,14972],"tags":[15135],"class_list":["post-10746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","category-touring-series-news","tag-emily-packard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}