{"id":10856,"date":"2012-09-29T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2012-09-29T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T11:09:42","slug":"emily-packard-will-attempt-to-qualify-for-first-milk-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/emily-packard-will-attempt-to-qualify-for-first-milk-bowl\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Packard Will Attempt To Qualify For First Milk Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thunder<\/a>Emily Packard: 50th annual Milk Bowl
\nThunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rookie standout Emily Packard of East Montpelier, Vt., will attempt to qualify for her first People’s United Milk Bowl on Sunday, September 30, at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. The Canaan Fair Speedway Late Model Rookie of the Year and recent ACT Invitational attendee finished 10th in her Thunder Road debut in mid-August, and the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Fecteau Homes\/GossCars.com\/VT Shifter Karts Chevrolet will join nearly 60 other Late Model competitors from across the northeast United States and Canada at Thunder Road this weekend. Packard, 15, will pull double duty in the event, as she will also compete in her family-owned Street Stock in a 50-lap \u201cMini Milk Bowl.\u201d
\n<\/p>\n

THE FACTS
\nWHO: Emily Packard, East Montpelier, Vt.
\nTEAM: No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Fecteau Homes\/GossCars.com\/VT Shifter Karts Chevrolet
\nCREW CHIEF: Neal Woodward, Milton, Vt.
\nBEST CAREER MILK BOWL FINISH: N\/A
\nMOST RECENT MILK BOWL FINISH: N\/A
\nWHAT: 50th annual People’s United Milk Bowl
\nWHERE: Thunder Road International Speedbowl, Barre, Vt. (.25-mile banked oval)
\nWHEN: Friday, September 28 \u2013 Practice, 11 a.m.; Saturday, September 29 \u2013 Practice, 9:30 a.m.; Qualifying, 1:30 p.m.; Sunday, September 20 \u2013 Race, 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

DID YOU KNOW?
\nEmily Packard became the youngest driver (15) ever to compete in the Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway when she started 37 in the event last weekend.
\nEmily Packard became the first woman to win a feature event at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in more than a decade when she won a 25-lap Street Stock feature on July 5.
\nEmily Packard finished second in the 100-lap Late Model season finale at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, N.H., earlier this month.
\nEmily Packard finished the 2012 season fourth in the Canaan Fair Speedway Late Model standings and 12th in the overall NASCAR Whelen All-American Series New Hampshire state standings.<\/p>\n

WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
\nEMILY PACKARD, Driver of the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Fecteau Homes\/GossCars.com\/VT Shifter Karts Chevrolet, On attempting to qualify for her first Milk Bowl this weekend: \u201cIt is going to be a busy, busy, busy weekend. We’re planning on running both cars, so it’s definitely going to be quite a difference. It will be a test of how much I can handle, and hopefully we can do well in both cars and show we’re a great team and can handle it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the Milk Bowl is such a huge race, and Thunder Road is such a tough track with so many great drivers planning on being there, just to get in the race will be huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

On what she learned earlier this month when she tried to qualify for the ACT Late Model Tour Labor Day Classic 200 at Thunder Road: \u201cIt is very, very competitive. The close competitiveness of all of it was the biggest thing. A lot of guys are right there running around the same speeds, and you have to wait for them to make that one little mistake and take advantage of it. That’s very different from Canaan every week, where guys make more mistakes and you can take advantage of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a lot more competitive on the ACT Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

On how she approaches a weekend like this at Thunder Road: \u201cIt’s a very big step this weekend, especially running so many events. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur approach (in practice and in the race) is that we’d rather be in traffic to learn more. We’ve accomplished a lot and had an amazing season \u2013 everything from Loudon out is just gravy on top of the turkey. It’s a very different approach for guys who have done it before \u2013 but for us, it’s about going and learning and trying to keep getting better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n

On her experience at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last weekend: \u201cIt was phenomenal. It was awesome. It was crazy. It was unbelievable. It was all of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole team definitely had a great time. We had a lot of laughs. The weekend was awesome, and it was a lot of bonding experience for us. I felt so bad (about the finish) because the team had taken so much time to get ready, and I was bummed out for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

UP NEXT
\nThe ACT Late Model Tour will wrap up the 2012 season with the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Saturday, October 6… Emily Packard will attempt to qualify for her first ACT Late Model Tour race at Airborne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Packard: 50th annual Milk Bowl Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Preview Rookie standout Emily Packard of East Montpelier, Vt., will attempt to qualify for her first People’s United Milk Bowl on Sunday, September 30, at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. The Canaan Fair Speedway Late Model Rookie of the Year and recent […]<\/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":[55,26,200],"tags":[15135,189],"class_list":["post-10856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-emily-packard","tag-milk-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856","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=10856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}