Victory Lane photo of Bubba's Win at Stateline Speedway

Bubba Broderick Blasts Cushion to Bring Home ASCS Patriot Win at Stateline

Bubba Broderick Blasts Cushion to Bring Home ASCS Patriot Win at Stateline A night after having what his team termed an “embarrassing outing” at Ransomville, Bubba Broderick took advantage of a visit to one of his best racetracks, as well as a competitors misfortune, to win. Broderick, making the long tow from Brookfield, CT, became the first repeat winner of the 2010 season on the ASCS Patriot Tour, claiming the 25-lap Paul Johnson Memorial at Stateline Speedway to kick off the Insinger Race Fuels King of the Southern Tier. Broderick used his mastery of the cushion to outduel defending series champion Bryan Howland for 20 straight laps. “I love this place! This is my favorite track,” Broderick reverberated after a wild 25-lap excursion. The 20-year-old had also made that declaration earlier in the night. Scott Bonnell drew the pole position and led the first five circuits of the feature by running the bottom lane. Broderick, who started third, hung close to the No. 3B by using the top until the first caution flag of the event flew for a spin in turn three collecting Shayne Ely and Doug Bowman. On the lap six restart, Bonnell’s car had a part fail in the steering and sent his No. 3B across the track and straight into the outside wall. With Bonnell out, it was now up to Broderick to hold off Howland, the most recent winner at Stateline. “I wish I would have been able to race with (Bonnell),” admitted Broderick after the race. “He was running real strong on the bottom and it would have been a good battle.” In what would turn out to be the final restart of the event, Broderick got a good launch off turn two, as did Howland, allowing the youthful duo to break away and sort it out between themselves. “I could hear (Howland), but I felt like I had a good lead mid-race and started to relax,” said Broderick in Victory Lane, where in reality he was only about two car lengths ahead. “On about lap 20 I saw the 51 peak underneath me, but I figured I’d be best to stay up top since I had not seen how I was on the bottom. I also thought that if I was able to drive around him on that lap that it was were the momentum off the corner was.” The former Rookie of the Year recipients hit lapped traffic with about five laps remaining, but with all of those cars on the bottom lane, they were clear to swing on by on the top. On one occasion, Howland get a drive off the middle of turn two and made slight contact with the left rear of the Northeast Carpet/ Pink Monkey Water No. 5, but they sorted it out. In Victory Lane, Howland was quick to come over and congratulate Broderick on his win. The winner was quick to reciprocate the sentiments as he mentioned to Howland how fun it was to battle with him for 20 straight laps. The win was important for Broderick on a number of fronts. He had come very close to his first career win at the 1/3-mile oval last June but when the cushion got too close to the wall, Jared Zimbardi was able to get underneath him. This year, the cushion, as well as the final result, was different. “I couldn’t stay on the cushion too long around the corner,” admitted Broderick. “I had to just lean on it briefly. The car was handling great on it because any time I felt it was pushing too much, I could jump right off of it.” It victory was also critical for the third year sprint car regular as he bounced back from an 11th place showing a night earlier at Ransomville. “This definitely just lifts us back up and proves to us that we can come in to any track and put together a great run.” For the full story by Rich Vleck got to http://www.ascspatriotsprints.com/fullstory.php?newsstory=Story157_stateline619.txt

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Bubba in the News at ASCS Sprints - Tuesday's Top Ten - The Tributes (6/8/2010)

...........Fourteen drivers have added their names to this winner's list over the past two weeks, including Bacon (who couldn't stop at just one) along with Bubba Broderick, Tommy Bryant, Luke Hall, Randy Hannagan, Joshua Hodges, Bryan Howland, Kent Lewis, Jr., Chris Morgan, Ryan Roberts, Robert Sellers, Jason Solwold, J.R. Stewart and Shane Stewart........... ...........After three-time ASCS Patriot champ Bryan Howland notched career win number 15 at Sharon on May 29, 20-year-old Bubba Broderick added his second career Patriot score the next night in Erie, PA.............. For the full story by Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 8, 2010) Go to: http://www.ascsracing.com/current_top_ten.php

Sideways with Bubba - Bubba Broderick Racing Report - Edition 2- A Much-Needed Win

Sideways with Bubba

 

Bubba Broderick Racing Report

 

Edition 2- A Much-Needed Win

 

As if climbing on top of the roll cage, screaming at the top of his lungs and flinging Ciao Water across Victory Lane didn't tell the whole story; Bubba Broderick was quick to explain verbally what winning Sunday Night at Eriez Speedway meant to him and the team.

 

"We needed this win real bad," Bubba declared in Victory Lane.  "We've been working real hard with this brand new chassis and on this new car after the Canandaigua Crash. It proves to us that we can still do it."

 

Bubba knew two weeks ago that he was entering his best stretch of racetracks to round out the month of May, but a rainout before the feature was run at Woodhull, where Bubba had earned a redraw spot, meant that he would have to wait for Memorial Weekend to go after his first top-10 of the season.

 

"We had a decent car that night, but I knew we weren't as good as we should be there," he admitted.  "The rain was actually a relief that we can figure out the car for that feature in July."

 

The team got to Sharon Speedway early on Saturday and appeared to be poised to duplicate or better his third place effort from Memorial Weekend 2009 at the Eastern Ohio Facility.

 

After moving from eighth to sixth in his heat, Bubba would find himself in the Four Laps of Fame Dash, where he would finish in second and start the A-Main in ninth.  The track was tricky in the 25-lap Feature though, and despite having some bright moments and crossing in seventh, the No. 5 Team was scratching their head after the Checkered Flag Flew.

 

"It looked like a good finish on paper, but it felt awful for us.  We just couldn't get the car to get in the racetrack.  We knew we had to do something because it just wasn't going forward."

 

After sleeping over at the track, the team woke up early Sunday Morning and got back on the 3/8-mile oval, testing for about 40 laps to get a better feel for their new Eagle Chassis.

 

"It helped (Crew Chief) Bones get a better feel for what the car did, and that allowed me to establish better communication with him.  When we finished I finally felt comfortable about the way we were coming off the corner."

 

The team entered Eriez with new found confidence, which was quite impressive at a track where Bubba was a runner-up in both races there in 2009. 

 

Moving from sixth to fourth in the heats where passing was difficult was enough to put Bubba in the redraw.  Pulling the No. 2 tennis ball would set the stage for more than just his first top-five of the season.

 

"The other drivers had been talking about the bottom all night, and that's where a lot of people were in the other heat, but I have never been a bottom person.  I was so happy to be on the outside of the front row and a felt a berm was still out there.  On the warm-up lap I went up there and felt the moisture and knew we were good."

 

When the green flag flew, Bubba quickly jumped out in front on the cushion and sailed away from a field.  A caution on lap six would allow a number of drivers to get another crack at Bubba, but nobody was in his league on this night.

 

It appeared as the race went on that the bottom might be coming in, but Bubba was blasting the cushion and maintaining his hefty lead.  As solid as he was on the top, he did come ultra-close to the outside wall on numerous occasions.

 

"I felt like those guys were right on me, I always get paranoid in that situation.  That cushion did keep getting closer to the wall and with about five to go I knew it was really high and getting slick too.  But I knew if I went to the bottom it was uncharted waters and might cost me the race."

 

Bubba would avoid any disaster and hang on for his second career ASCS Patriot Win.  It also put him back into the championship picture and helped to bolster the confidence level.

 

"When you get that first win, it's a huge weight off your shoulders," he reflected on Tuesday.  "You don't think about not winning any more, just about winning."

 

The focus now shifts to this Friday's event at Ohsweken, where Bubba has qualified for both Canadian Nationals that he attempted.

 

"I definitely like Ohsweken, but we have never done well there.  I just feel we are on a roll right now though so I know we have the setup to get it done."

 

Bubba Broderick is a 20-year-old from Brookfield, CT in his third year of full-time 360 sprint car racing.  He was the 2008 Insinger Race Fuels Rookie of the Year for the ASCS Patriots and scored his first career win at Arcade International Raceway last June.  The Broderick Racing Team was named "Patriots of the Year" in 2009.

 

Broderick Racing is supported by Northeast Carpet, Brownie's Towing, Ciao Water, Eagle Motorsports, Mike Emhof Motorsports, Fyne Line Construction, Campbell's Painting, Jim's Welding Supply.

 

For more information, be sure to visit www.BroderickRacing.com. 

 

Contact Info: Rich.Vleck@ASCSracing.com

Broderick Wins Patriot Sprints

Broderick Wins Patriot Sprints
By Jay Pees -  May 31, 2010

HAMMETT- Race time arrived with temperatures in the upper 70s for the invasion of the ASCS Patriot Sprints to Eriez Speedway on Sunday.

Connecticut's Bubba Broderick came away from his 8 -hour tow with the win. Ben Burgess Jr won his third feature of the season while Mike Knight, Wade Slaney, and Jamie Hebner got their second wins of the season. The wildest finish of the season was the Street Stock finale with Chris Withers coming away with the win in a three abreast photo-finish. And Scott Gurdak make his first visit to Victory Lane.

Broderick jumped out to the early lead in the ASCS Patriot Sprint race with Kyle Moffit second. Heat winner Judi Bates spun in turn four at lap six for the first caution of the event. At that point local driver Scott Bonnell was third, but Jared Zimbardi got by for third on the first lap under gree and Zimbardi was second at the end of eight.

At halfway, Broderick had a substantial lead over Zimbardi and was in lapped traffic. Bryan Howland got third from Moffit at lap 17, but caution was again over the speedway with six laps to go for a two-car tangle on the main straight, evaporating Broderick's huge lead.

For the restart the lapped car was the only thing between Zimbardi and the leader. Running the extreme high line, Broderick had the field covered over the remaining distance with Zimbardi settling for second with Bryan Howland, Tim Kelly, and pole sitter Kyle Moffit filling out the top five.

For the Full Story go to: http://www.post-journal.com/page/content.detail/id/559220.html#

Broderick races to ASCS Sprints win at Eriez

RACING REPORT: Broderick races to ASCS Sprints win at Eriez
By Matt Martin, Sean Heilman - 05.31.10

Bubba Broderick wasn't taking any chances at Eriez Speedway on Sunday night.

He finished second twice in ASCS Patriot Sprints features at the Greene Township dirt track in 2009.

So despite having leads as large as a full straightaway, Broderick risked crashing into the turn 4 wall several times to earn his first win at Eriez and second career ASCS win in front of about 4,000 fans.

"When you're ahead from the beginning, you're on the go all the way," said Broderick, a Brookfield, Conn., native. "I'm so excited right now. We needed this. We're going to be celebrating."

Broderick immediately grabbed the lead from the outside pole. Before long his lead stretched to three seconds. A caution on the seventh lap failed to keep him from maintaining a commanding lead.

Broderick built his advantage by racing on the high side. With each lap, his No. 5 car seemed to inch closer to the fourth turn's outside wall. His sense of urgency intensified at the midway point.

He caught a quick glimpse of runner-up Jared Zimbardi on the inside.

Broderick wondered if he should slide inside to stay ahead of Zimbardi. Instead, he remained high, almost too high in the fourth turn with seven laps left. His car wiggled a bit as it entered the front straightaway.

"A couple of times I got sideways on the straightaways," Broderick said.

But nothing stopped him, including the feature's final caution with five laps left. Broderick capitalized on having a slower lapped car between him and Zimbardi's No. 35 car.

"I thought I could give Bubba (a strong challenge)," said Zimbardi, of Little Valley, N.Y. But the lapped car kept Zimbardi from getting a strong restart. "He did a good job," Zimbardi said of Broderick, who maintained a comfortable lead all the way to the checkered flag to secure the victory.

For the full story go to: http://www.goerieblogs.com/sports/sports/?tag=bubba-broderick