Jul 9, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Emily Packard
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt – In front of a huge crowd at Devil’s Bowl on Friday July 4th, Emily Packard and the 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuel team unloaded and hit the ground running to continue building on their successful season. The 17 year old East Montpelier native finds herself in a tight point’s battle for the track championship, and was looking to this night to stay in contention.
When the heat race rolled off, Packard was slated to start in the 5th position, but the car starting 3rd chose to drop to the rear of the field, which moved Packard up to the 3rd starting spot. Only a handful of laps into the race, Packard and another car got together coming out of turn three, and Packard spun as a result. She took a quick trip into the pit area, where the guys changed the left front and got her back on the track without losing a lap. Working her way through the field, Packard finished the heat race in second position.
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Jun 27, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Touring Series News, White Mountain
Emily Packard
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt – Two thirds of the way through the American Canadian Tour season and Packard is locked in the middle of the ACT championship points battle. Continuing her impressive season, Packard and her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels team set out this weekend to build on their success, including the ACT race at White Mountain Motorsports Park race. Packard finished the race in 5th place, moving her from 4th to 2nd in the championship point standings. “This was my first time at White Mountain in a late model, so I spent practice just learning the track, and where I needed to run,” said Packard.
In the heat race Packard started in the third position, fighting an ill-handling race car she was able to finish the heat in third place. This got her into the race without having to run in the consolation race, which gave Neal and the guys time to work on the car. “We fought a car that was loose in and pushy tight through the center in the heat race,” Packard said “But the guys went back and forth across the spectrum to fix the car for the feature event.”
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Jun 19, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Emily Packard
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt – With Mother Nature winning again this season and canceling the show at Thunder Road, Emily Packard and her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels team had a little more time to prepare the car for the American Canadian Tour race at Devil’s Bowl.
Having run the last few weeks at Devil’s Bowl the team went into this race optimistically cautious. Packard’s success in previous weeks was pushed out of her head and she was focused on the task of the day. Starting 8th in the heat and only 10 laps to work with, Packard found herself held up in traffic but finishing in 5th place. This gave her a +3, which was enough to score her the pole for the consolation race. “10 laps is not enough time to pass,” said Packard. “I found myself stuck in traffic, and was just not able to gain one more position.”
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Jun 13, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Emily Parkard
Up Next: Thunder Road Weekly and Devil’s Bowl Spring Green 114 ACT Race
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – After a rough feature race at Thunder Road last week, Packard proceeds into this week with a positive attitude. “We are hoping for better things this week at Thunder Road,” said Packard. With some minor damage on the car, the team had little work to get the car ready to run. Presently 11th in the point standings at Thunder Road Packard is only one point back from 10th place.
“All we are looking to do is improve during the 50 lap feature this week,” Packard said. Racing starts Thursday night at 6:30 for the Harvest Equipment Night.
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Jun 11, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Emily Packard
Capturing her First ACT Pole, Leading the Most Laps and her 2nd Three Star Award
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt – Starting last in the final heat race at Riverside Saturday night, Packard went out and showed them that wasn’t going to be a problem for her. Starting in 7th with her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels car, she followed the 27nh to the front. Packard finished comfortably in 3rd place +4, which was enough to secure her the pole for the Central Paving 150 ACT race. “We struggled early in practice, but our times were similar with everyone else,” said Packard, “We got the bottom lane in the heat race and were able to follow the 27 to the front and earn the pole with our +4.”
Starting on the pole was only the beginning of how Packard’s night would unfold. With the drop of the green flag, Packard, fell back to 2nd place, as the 27nh took the lead. However, it didn’t take long for Packard to get in the groove and move her way back around the 27nh for the lead on lap 20, and she just checked out. In one of the fastest run races that ran caution free, Packard found her rhythm early and maintained it for a majority of the race. By lap 50 Packard had almost an entire straightaway advantage over the 4ny, and was putting cars down a lap every lap. “After losing the lead for a few laps, I was able to get it back and lead 115 laps of the race,” Packard said.
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