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Jimmy "Bubba" Broderick Challenging for ASCS Patriot Division Rookie of the Year.
BROOKFIELD, CONN. – Jimmy "Bubba" Broderick, fresh off his second-place points season in the Central New York Mini Sprint season, is headed for the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) Patriot Division 2008 season, aiming for Rookie of the Year honors.
"I want the Rookie of the Year so bad," stated Broderick. "I'll do whatever it takes" to win the prize. Broderick will be racing in the No. 5 sprint car owned by his father with sponsorship from a variety of local businesses.
While the full schedule has not been announced yet, there's still a busy year ahead for the second-generation racer, with Mini-Sprint races planned for every opportunity when he's not running the 360-cubic-inch ASCS sprint car. "I've been racing mini-sprints already," reports the young racer. "They built an indoor track about an hour from home at Motortown. I've been driving other people's cars when they would ask me to help them with setups. I think that's a real compliment for an 18-year-old driver."
The move from mini-sprints into the iron block 360 cubic inch winged sprint cars is a big one but he's not "going out cold turkey. At least I got to race the big car at Rolling Wheels once last year," commented Broderick. In spite of the plans to focus on big car racing in 2008, he's still racing every chance he gets. "We had a good run last weekend," added his father. "We should have finished third but finished fourth" because it wasn't worth the risky move to make the pass.
Jimmy Sr. is headed south next week to pick up the team's backup car in North Carolina but before that they plan to head to Motortown in Windsor, Conn. for "practice tomorrow [Wednesday] night if it'll stop snowing," said Bubba. Then they'll head back on Friday night for the feature races at Motortown.
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