{"id":18972,"date":"2015-06-02T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=18972"},"modified":"2015-06-02T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:29:09","slug":"packard-returning-to-devils-bowl-speedway-for-peoples-united-bank-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/packard-returning-to-devils-bowl-speedway-for-peoples-united-bank-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Packard Returning to Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway for People\u2019s United Bank 100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WEST HAVEN, VT \u2013 Stock car driver Emily Packard returns to Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway on Saturday night with a mission: Win the People\u2019s United Bank 100.\u00a0 The East Montpelier, VT native will use the annual American-Canadian Tour Late Model event to kick off a big week and hopes that she can celebrate with what would be an historic breakthrough ACT victory.<\/p>\n

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The People\u2019s United Bank 100 opens a busy stretch for the 18 year-old that includes her graduation from U-32 High School in Montpelier.\u00a0 Packard is also simultaneously completing her freshman year at the Community College of Vermont, where she has made the Dean\u2019s List while working toward a business degree.<\/p>\n

Packard is focusing solely on the ACT Late Model Tour schedule in 2015, but racked up three wins as a weekly competitor at the Rutland County track last year. \u00a0While the People\u2019s United Bank 100 marks the sixth ACT time has visited Devil\u2019s Bowl, it is the first ACT race to be held at night on the fast half-mile; Packard hopes that her experience at the track will give her an advantage over the touring ACT stars.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really excited to get back to Devil\u2019s Bowl. \u00a0I\u2019ve been in Rutland a lot for college, but I\u2019ve missed racing there,\u201d Packard said.\u00a0 \u201cA lot of Devil\u2019s Bowl fans have asked me where I\u2019ve been, so it\u2019ll be good to see them.\u00a0 My team goes to every race thinking we have a shot to win, but especially at Devil\u2019s Bowl.\u00a0 We have a lot of laps there and we know what the track conditions are like at night.\u00a0 I hope that gives us an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n

History is on Packard\u2019s side, as she has finishes of second and third in the last two 100-lap Late Model races under the lights at Devil\u2019s Bowl.\u00a0 She will try to become only the second woman to win an American-Canadian Tour event at the People\u2019s United Bank 100, and the first since Tracie Bellerose 14 years ago.<\/p>\n

Packard will face fellow ACT stars Wayne Helliwell Jr., Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Brian Hoar, Nick Sweet, Brandon Atkins, Travis Stearns, and Brad Babb, as well as home track drivers Josh Masterson and top rookie Richard Lowrey III.\u00a0 Helliwell and Hoar have combined to win all five previous ACT events at Devil\u2019s Bowl, while Sweet has three 100-lap victories there.\u00a0 Atkins won a 50-lapper on opening night at Devil\u2019s Bowl last month, and Masterson won on May 23 and holds the point lead in the weekly standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WEST HAVEN, VT \u2013 Stock car driver Emily Packard returns to Devil\u2019s Bowl Speedway on Saturday night with a mission: Win the People\u2019s United Bank 100.\u00a0 The East Montpelier, VT native will use the annual American-Canadian Tour Late Model event to kick off a big week and hopes that she can celebrate with what would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[55,201,14972,200],"tags":[14980],"class_list":["post-18972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-devils-bowl","category-touring-series-news","category-vermont","tag-devils-bowl-speedway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18974,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions\/18974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}