August 31, 2020
The Indianapolis 500 was a bit different this year because there were no fans and it was not held in the month of May. August 23, 2020 was the day of the great race with Marco Andretti securing the pole position!!
It became a unique race with Marco Andretti on the pole and Mario and Michael Andretti leading him to the green flag in the two seat Indy Car. Sadly, Marco didn't lead a lap, I believe.
Scott Dixon dominated the day except for the last 33 laps when Takuma Sato took the lead. Takuma is now a second time Indy 500 winner.
Congratulations to Takuma and teammate Graham Rahal who finished third. Great day for Bobby Rahal and his team that owns both cars!
I was really pulling for Marco, and then Scott Dixon if Marco couldn't get it done. Rinus Veekay was a rookie I was pulling for also. He survived a scary accident during the race with Spencer Pigot.
You just never know who will win in the end. That's racing!
Very disappointed at how NBC handled the television coverage for the great race cutting it short.
On another note, I turned 66 years old on August 30th!! Been retired for a year now and busy as can be!
Next project among others is a book on my father Carl Zimmermann! Been working on it for a while and it's a ton of work with lots to do yet.
Enjoy a look at the Indy 500 leaders. These pictures were taken almost two months ago at Road America.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
September 23, 2019
I have been retired now for 20 days and I'm tired!!! I have been catching up on chores I've wanted to do and have a ton more to do. I'm not complaining though!
Yesterday was the final race of the Indy Car season and it was an awesome race!
Colton Herta at 19 years old won the race from pole position and Joseph Newgarden won the championship! Personally, I was pulling for Scott Dixon for the race win and championship but it was not meant to be. Scott's previous two races with mechanical issues really put him out of the championship hunt. He tried very hard though starting and finishing yesterday's race in second place.
Here are a few photos of the guys from Road America this year and now we have to wait a whole year before we see them race again!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
June 24, 2019
What a fun and busy weekend with Indy Cars at Road America! I even ended up on the radio at 105.7fm, The Final Inspection show on Saturday!! Check it out at radio.com in the "on demand" section.
Colton Herta and Alexander Rossi were the stories of the weekend. Colton at 19 years old won the pole position for the Indy Car race!
For the race, Colton only led the first three turns and then it was Alexander Rossi all day to win the race!
I let the photos tell the rest of the story.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 6, 2018
This is part three of my blogs on the Indy Car weekend at Road America. We look at images from Sunday here and mostly of the race.
It's amazing how hard these guys drive and how beautiful cars are. They have got to be true athletes to drive these cars the way that they do.
I also have a few images of the victory celebration from the Sunday morning Indy Lights race.
Enjoy some photos of a fun weekend.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 23, 2018
Here is a look at the Indy Cars at Road America on Saturday, June 23 a few weeks back.
Bryan Herta had a great weekend winning one of the Indy Lights races on Saturday. A few photos here show him making donuts while celebrating in turn five!
Will Power is shown really pushing it during qualifying and going off track. He qualified P1 though.
Enjoy a look at some beautiful cars. Love the new body/aero kit on the Indy Cars.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 3, 2017
With summer here and life being so busy, I have started writing a blog every other week now. Indy cars last weekend and Summerfest this week, I'm too busy!
Here is a look at Friday of last weekend. The Indy Cars were at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. It's such a beautiful track.
Colin Herta is going to be a great race car driver in the future and you get a look at him here. He is Bryan Herta's son, and being on the Andretti Motorsports team, this kid is going to go far. Fuel and turbo issues had him doing zero laps in the morning and then he came out to get pole position for race 2 of Indy Lights.
Enjoy a look and I have to gear up for Steve Miller tonight at Summerfest rain or shine!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 25, 2016
On race day morning the Indy cars usually do a warmup session to make sure that all systems are working on the cars. This year at Road America it was raining in the morning for the warmup session. With the race weather predicted to be sunny and hot, nobody was going out for the warmup it seemed.
Then, I heard one Indy car spring to life and saw Sebastian Bourdais getting ready to go out! He was wearing some big wet weather boots until he got into his car. He had the track to himself for almost the whole session other than Graham Rahal going out for just one lap.
How much fun was he having?? I think a lot by the look on his face when he got out of the car. He was out there for probably about 10 laps and had the whole four mile track to himself. The sound of just one car and seeing the spray of water behind his car was awesome! In the photos you can see what a wet weather rain tire looks like. They move a lot of water! Normally, an Indy car runs slicks with no grooves at all. I have included a photo of Sebastian during the race and you can see the difference in the tires.
I also have included photos of Sebastian being introduced to the fans with Miss Wisconsin's help.
Also included here are photos of Mario Andretti and the lucky winner of the sweepstakes who got to ride in the two seater Indy car with him. A little height difference between the two men! Enter the sweepstakes at Honda.com and you might get to ride too!
Have a good week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
September 14, 2015
My last blog was on Scott Dixon, our new IRL champion. Everyone, as I said then, was looking at Graham Rahal or Juan Montoya to win the championship.
This photo blog is about Graham Rahal and his career milestones so far. I start with photos from 2004, when he was in Formula BMW at Elkhart Lake. Then, 2007 at Elkhart Lake when he was in his first year, his rookie year of Champ Car. That had to be a big jump because Champ Car then had sooo much horsepower! Then a few photos of this year 2015 at the Milwaukee Mile.
Graham had a lot of help through the years, and one of his mentors and supporters was Paul Newman, who ran Newman Haas Racing with Carl Haas. Paul did so much for the sport that I must mention him and include a few photos from 2007 and 2008.
Enjoy a look at Graham and hopefully next year will be his year!
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Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
December 1, 2015
Hi everyone,
Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving with family and friends!
I haven't done a blog about racing in a while.
During the Thanksgiving break here, I heard some interesting news. Graham Rahal became engaged to Courtney Force!!! Congrats to you both!
These are two racing families here. Graham is Bobby Rahal's son and Courtney is John Force's daughter. Indy car driver marrying a Funny Car dragster driver could only make them both faster, right?
They are both 26 years old and have a lot of racing left in their lives. Both have very famous, successful fathers. It will be interesting to see if that helps either one.
Courtney, is just getting going but Graham has been racing for a long time and has won one race in the IRL series.
Here is a look at Graham from this past year at the Milwaukee Mile. I have photographed Graham throughout his whole racing career.
I will have to do another blog with all those photos of him racing in Toyota Atlantics, Champ Cars and the IRL series.
Have a nice week and if you need a nice Christmas present, all our photos are 10% off during the entire month of December!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
