{"id":13992,"date":"2014-09-19T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=13992"},"modified":"2014-09-19T20:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T00:31:11","slug":"packard-excited-act-race-new-hampshire-motor-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2014\/09\/packard-excited-act-race-new-hampshire-motor-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Packard excited for ACT race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/2013\/05\/act-late-model-tour-emily-packard-thunder-road-intl-speedbowl-race-report\/emily-mug-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/emily-mug-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Packard\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/emily-mug-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/emily-mug.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><strong>Packard excited for ACT race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. \u2013 After a couple poor experiences at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the 17 year old East Montpelier native looks forward to redeeming herself.  Emily Packard loves racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and is hoping for a good run on Saturday in her 9x Northstar Fireworks\/Packard Fuels car in the Bond Auto Parts ACT Invitational.<br \/>\n <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Packard\u2019s debut at the \u201cMagic Mile, she finished in the 41st position, after being caught up in an accident on lap 15.  In her sophomore run in the American Canadian Tour Bond Auto Parts Invitational, Packard finished 42nd when an accident took her out just four laps into the race.  Packard compares her luck at NHMS to her season last year at Devil\u2019s Bowl, where she struggled, but never gave up; finally having a breakthrough season there this year.  \u201cWe are hoping for a top-10 this weekend, and since it\u2019s not a point\u2019s race, we know that it won\u2019t impact us should we have a bad run,\u201d Packard said. \u201cWe don\u2019t race any other track like this all season, so I always look forward to running on the big track.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Unable to make the practice at NHMS back in August, Packard doesn\u2019t really find that as a disadvantage.  \u201cWe have a 50 minute practice on Saturday morning, and will use that time to fine tune the car,\u201d said Packard.  \u201cThe track will be different by the time the 5 pm race starts, between the temperature change and all the rubber from the cup cars, modifieds and trucks running before us.  All the competitors will be in the same boat, and it will come down to who can acclimate to the track the best.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Packard excited for ACT race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. \u2013 After a couple poor experiences at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the 17 year old East Montpelier native looks forward to redeeming herself. Emily Packard loves racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and is hoping for a good run on Saturday in [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour","category-new-england-racing-news","category-nhms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13993,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}