July 9, 2018

Wow!!! Blog #300! I guess I've been doing this for a while!

I really enjoy sharing my work with everyone. It is a passion.  I love to photograph racing and music. I have been doing it since 1971.

Indy Car weekend at Road America was 3 full days of fun, sun and photos.

This blog is about Friday 6-22-2018 and I will do blogs coming up of Saturday and Sunday.

The Final Inspection Show 105.7FM that I work with, taped the radio show on Friday.

We interviewed Mario Andretti, Matt Villander, fresh from his LeMans win, Graham Rahal and the top engineer of Bridgestone Racing Tires.

My heart goes out to Mario Andretti who lost his wife, Dee Ann, a week later.  They were married for 57 years!

Enjoy a look at some legends and some great cars on a cool, cloudy Friday at Road America.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Indy Cars at Road America on Friday June 22, 2018.

May 28, 2018

It's Memorial Day as I write this blog and we should remember all of our fallen soldiers today and thank all the veterans for their service. Thank you Dad, Captain Zimmermann!

Yesterday, I sat in our nice air conditioned home and watched the Indy 500 and the F1 Grand Prix in Monaco. Tradition here is to take a break from chores and enjoy the races!

Well, Helio and a few other of my picks didn't win. Will Power won the race and congratulations to him.

The photos of Will Power included here start in 2007.

Next blog is Bon Jovi in 1987!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

January 22, 2017

Last week we lost another legend in the world of racing with the passing of Dan Gurney at the age of 89.

Dan was a racer like no other. He is the only American to win in Formula 1 with his own car. That very car and Dan were such a big part of my childhood racing memories. He and Jim Clark were and still are my heroes of Indy car and Formula 1.

Did you know that we can thank Dan Gurney for the opening of a champagne bottle after you win a race? He started that tradition with a win long ago.

Here is a look at Dan in 1991 at Road America with his very fast and race winning Toyota Eagles. The other photo is from the Milwaukee Mile and I'm not sure of the year.

Miss you Dan and thank you for all you have done for racing. AAR racing developed some great machines with your wizard ways.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

September 11, 2017

This blog is about a legendary car at Road America in 1973, the Shadow Can Am car driven by Jackie Oliver and James Hunt.

Don Nichols, the main man of Team Shadow and UOP (Universal Oil Products) Racing in 1973 just passed away a short time ago which is why these photos came to mind.

I dug these photos up a while ago for some people who were restoring the car. It recently sold for big money!

The interesting thing to me is that James Hunt is in the car in the one photo.  I suspect he spent a fair amount of time at Siebkens that weekend back in May 1973!

Enjoy a look at a fantastic racing machine.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

The famous Shadow Racing Can Am car at Road America in 1973.

August 14, 2017

Last weekend was a busy and fun weekend at Road America with some crazy weather!

Friday it poured and looked like rain the whole weekend.

Sunday's race was awesome as Pipo Deroni and his teammates in the Nissan Tequila Patron car won! Pipo did the win with an amazing restart of the race with about half an hour left.

Congrats to James French who clinched his championship in the PC category at his home track!

Thanks to the Final Inspection show at 105.7fm and check out the guy with the Michelin Bibendum mascot!

Enjoy a look at some of the 1400 photos I took!

I was on the starters stand for the start of Sunday's race and the flyover with the planes looks awesome with the contrasting, rainy sky!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

IMSA at Road America August 4, 5 and 6 of 2017.

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

Friday fun at Road America!