{"id":10930,"date":"2012-10-06T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2012-10-13T22:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T02:01:32","slug":"staging-lanes-emily-packard-prepping-for-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/staging-lanes-emily-packard-prepping-for-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"STAGING LANES: Emily Packard Prepping For 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

15-Year-Old Late Model Driver Heads To Fall Foliage 200<\/strong><\/p>\n

EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. \u2013 Emily Packard looks at this weekend’s Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway as an opportunity, both for this year as well as next. When the 15-year-old Canaan Fair Speedway Rookie of the Year attempts to qualify at Airborne on Saturday, October 6, it will provide her the chance to make her first career ACT Late Model Tour start while also setting the foundation for 2013.<\/p>\n

Packard, who is attempting to qualify for an ACT race for just the second time in her career, is eager to get back on the track after getting rained out at the Milk Bowl last weekend. Her goal is to run weekly at Thunder Road International Speedbowl next season while also tackling a healthy dose of the ACT Late Model Tour schedule.
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\u201cObviously, after this being the second time (we’ve tried to qualify for an ACT event), we’d be upset if we didn’t qualify,\u201d Packard said. \u201cBut still, everything from September 1 on has been icing on the cake for us this season. Of course, we want to go and run with the guys and do well and take part in one of these races, but it’s going to be fine no matter what happens.\u201d
\nPackard tested the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Fecteau Homes\/GossCars.com\/VT Shifter Karts Chevrolet at Airborne Speedway last month. While the flat half-mile is similar in nature to both Devil’s Bowl Speedway and her home track of Canaan, it does offer a unique set of challenges.<\/p>\n

Part of the weekend for Packard will be spent practicing around other cars at Airborne.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery track has its own little thing about it that makes it great. That track at Airborne is very, very different \u2013 very different,\u201d Packard said. \u201cIt’s like all of a sudden a big sweeping turn becomes a straightaway and you have to be ready to turn the car. I’m excited to get there with some other guys on the track and see how close I was when we tested.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last weekend at Thunder Road, Packard posted impressive practice times before changing track conditions threw a curveball at the team in qualifying for the 50th annual Milk Bowl. She did not qualify for the Late Model event, though she did earn the eighth starting spot for the \u201cMini Milk Bowl\u201d \u2013 a 100-lap Late Model race broken into two segments.
\nRain postponed that event until October 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cThunder Road is always looked at as one of the toughest tracks around,\u201d Packard said. \u201cThere’s many diff ways to run it, and different ways to run it fast. The way the track changed from practice to the end of the day, to me it showed that it is THE hardest track in New England. <\/p>\n

\u201cHaving not conquered it twice now in a Late Model, it just makes me want to go back next year and get better. I definitely learned a lot about the track last weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

15-Year-Old Late Model Driver Heads To Fall Foliage 200 EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. \u2013 Emily Packard looks at this weekend’s Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway as an opportunity, both for this year as well as next. When the 15-year-old Canaan Fair Speedway Rookie of the Year attempts to qualify at Airborne on Saturday, October 6, […]<\/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":[55,126,14972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-new-england","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","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=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}