{"id":13337,"date":"2013-06-26T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=13337"},"modified":"2013-06-26T00:19:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T04:19:39","slug":"emily-packard-packard-finishes-19th-at-thunder-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/emily-packard-packard-finishes-19th-at-thunder-road\/","title":{"rendered":"EMILY PACKARD: Packard Finishes 19th At Thunder Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emily<\/a>Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl: Emily Packard
\nCasella Waste Management 50 Race Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

BARRE, Vt. \u2013 Emily Packard of East Montpelier, Vt., finished 19th in the Casella Waste Management 50 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Thursday, June 20. Packard fought the balance on the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Berlin Optical Expressions Chevrolet throughout the day, and then found track position difficult to come by in the second half of the feature event. Packard moved to 17th in the track’s Late Model standings in her first full season of Late Model competition at the Thunder Road.
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\nWHO<\/strong>: Emily Packard, East Montpelier, Vt.
\nCREW CHIEF<\/strong>: Neal Woodward, Georgia, Vt.
\nTEAM<\/strong>: Emily Packard Motorsports No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Berlin Optical Expressions Chevrolet
\nSPONSORS<\/strong>: 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<\/p>\n

WHAT<\/strong>: Casella Waste Management 50
\nWHERE<\/strong>: Thunder Road International Speedbowl, Barre, Vt. (.25-mile oval)
\nFINISHED<\/strong>: 19th
\nNEXT RACE<\/strong>: June 27, Fairpoint Communications 50, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl, Barre, Vt. (.25-mile banked oval)
\nPOINTS POSITION<\/strong>: 17th<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

EMILY, HOW WOULD YOU SUM UP YOUR DAY?<\/strong>
\nIt was just one of those days. The car wasn’t good all day. It went from one extreme to the other, so it made it pretty frustrating.<\/p>\n

WHAT WAS THE CAR DOING?<\/strong>
\nI was tight in the first two practices, so we loosened right up for the heat race. We went too far with it then, but in the consi and feature it loosened up more \u2013 which didn’t make any sense \u2013 because we made a ton of changes in the other direction. It was really weird.<\/p>\n

DID YOU WALK AWAY FEELING LIKE YOU GUYS HAD TAKEN A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION?<\/strong>
\nI think I learned more about racing in two-lane traffic. Of course, it wasn’t really two lanes \u2013 it was more like ‘Emily on the outside trying to learn how to drive the track.’ I was just trying to get whatever I could.
\nIt wasn’t a great night, but it wasn’t a bad night. There were some good things that happened, but racing in traffic and not being able move forward got frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl: Emily Packard Casella Waste Management 50 Race Report BARRE, Vt. \u2013 Emily Packard of East Montpelier, Vt., finished 19th in the Casella Waste Management 50 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Thursday, June 20. Packard fought the balance on the No. 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Berlin Optical Expressions Chevrolet throughout the day, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[26,200],"tags":[15135],"class_list":["post-13337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thunder-road","category-vermont","tag-emily-packard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}