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June 13, 2016
It is Sunday June 12 as I write this and the tragedy in Orlando is all over the news. Terrible, sad, and what a crazy world we live in these days...
So, let's look at some good days in 2001 at Road America again. I have so many images from that weekend and I am sharing today some of my favorite photos of a young Helio Castoneves and more, of course.
Bryan Herta, Max Papis and Alex Zanardi were racing with Helio and a lot of other good racers!
Looking at the high technology steering wheel with the map of the track on it is interesting.
Enjoy a look back and next week I will share some more pictures from that weekend as we get ready for the Indy cars coming soon to Road America.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
June 6, 2016
The Indy cars are coming to Elkhart Lake's Road America in a few weeks. So I thought it would be good to look at some of the great days at Road America in 2001.
Here are photos of the CART days back then with some of the drivers of the day. Gil DeFerran and Helio CastroNeves were with Penske Racing at that time. The pictures of
Alex Zanardi were before he was with Target and Chip Ganassi Racing. You will also see here pictures of Michael Andretti, Max Papis, Kenny Brack, Bruno Janquiera, Christiano DeMatta, Memo Gidley, Alex Tagliani and more.
The last photo is of Christian Fittipaldi and his front brake rotors on fire! That was a result from hard braking in turn five.
Enjoy a look at these and I'll have some more next week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
May 29, 2016
Wow!! Now that was a good race today my friends! The 100th running of the Indy 500 did not disappoint me at all. It was full of drama and highs and lows just like it should be.
I really wanted James Hinchcliffe to win because of all that he has gone through with his injury last year almost bleeding out and dying. Then he gets pole position this year. That would have made a great story.
My number two pick was Helio Castroneves to win again and climb the fence like he does. He is always fun and a great racer.
My number three pick was Juan Pablo Montoya who won last year and is an amazing racer.
I have photos of all these guys and I was ready for my blog work but no, we have a big surprise winner! It is American racer Alexander Rossi who has been in Europe racing. He ran a great race!
His team owner is Brian Herta who did the same thing with Dan Wheldon in 2011, took a long shot and won it!
We lost Dan Wheldon to a bad accident in Las Vegas a few years back... so my blog has photos of Dan today in his memory since I don't have any of Alexander Rossi, not many people do unless you have been in Europe!
The photos are from 2005, 2007, and 2008. One is of Dan and Tony Kanaan, a teammate who had a great race today. Another photo here is of a visor I have of Dan's. I still have it. I traded a photograph with Dan for the visor.
I'm sure Dan is smiling upstairs with this victory of his old team.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann