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August 22, 2022
The IMSA races came to Road America for their annual visit on August 5-7, along with the usual rain.
It was great to see Robert Wikins racing again and Ryan Eversley racing in two different series during the weekend.
The Porsche Cup raced in the most rain but the big IMSA Sunday race was a race from lap one with a bit of rain thrown in.
Wayne Taylor Racing in their DPI Cadillac took the pole position for the Sunday race but lost the lead a few times. In the final laps with a pass on the grass, they got the win for Ricky Taylor and Philipe Albuquerque!
Fun weekend with a VERY hot Saturday of racing with the temperature reaching 92 degrees.
Enjoy a look at some of the fun and one of the last looks at the DPI cars as they are now. All the cars next year will be new.
The new Cadillacs and Acuras look fast and beautiful. Can't wait to see the final look of the cars.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 8, 2022
This is the second part of my blog about the WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman at Road America. This action packed weekend ran from July 14 through the 17th.
My last blog focused on the 30 Dan Gurney Eagle race cars and this blog features the rest of the cars.
These are some very cool historic cars from and most of them look brand new and well taken care of.
Checkout the beauty of the race cars and the people having fun in the fog on Friday mornings first session.
The history of some of these cars is amazing. You'll see Mario Andretti's old F1 car and so many other cool cars.
Next blog up is the IMSA series at Road America that just finished and I'll be editing as you read this. It's usually a rain event so who knows what's gonna happen this year.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 25, 2022
This past month has been incredibly busy for me as a photographer. We had Indy Cars at Road America, Miller's at the Milwaukee Mile and music with Summerfest. It has been alot of photography with alot of editing yet to do. My favorite part was last weekend at Road America!
The WeatherTech International Challenge with Brian Redman was held at Road America. The highlight was having 30 of Dan Gurney's AAR Racing Eagles come together for a reunion. This many Eagles together at one time has never happened! People came from all over the world to see this gathering of iconic cars.
Dan Gurney's 1967 F1 All American Racers Gurney Weslake 12 cylinder Eagle, #36, even came from the Revs Institute in Naples Florida. This is THE car that won the 1967 F1 race in Spa, Belgium. It is also possibly the most beautiful race car ever made. The All American made by Dan Gurney and his AAR crew is still the only American made car and driver to win an F1 race. I saw people with tears in their eyes looking at this beautiful piece of history. It is that special of a car and probably my favorite along with Jim Clark's Indy 500 winning Lotus Indy Car.
Most of the Eagles did not run on track. They were only on display. It was beautiful to see. Even one of Dan Gurney's IMSA Toyota cars was there. Thanks to Justin Gurney for bringing it along with a few other cars.
Sunday morning, we gridded all the Eagles together and did a photograph from a lift about 30 feet up. Turned out to be a very cool photo and hopefully a poster at the Road America Paddock shop soon.
The weekend also had a bunch of other vintage races running and that will be my next blog. This blog is just to enjoy the Eagles.
As we did the grid photograph someone said that an actual bald eagle was flying overhead!! Could it have been Dan checking on us? How cool is that!
Enjoy the Eagles and their beauty.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann