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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
July 11, 2022
On the weekend of June 12, 2022, the Indy Cars came to race at Road America. The Sensio Road America Grand Prix was a spectacular race! For a while we figured it was going to take all day though.
Alexander Rossi won the pole position and Josef Newgarden won the race with a great pit stop that put him ahead of Alex for the win.
The first 10 laps or so had a bit of crazy driving. Jimmie Johnson went off course on the first lap in turn 3 which brought out the yellow flag.
Alex Palou had contact on lap 4 for another yellow flag and then Will Power had a wild accident in turn 5. Will Power got a little push by Devlin DeFrancesco that put him into the wall and was facing the wrong way with a broken nose on his car. He attempted to continue on right in front of me, but had to stop on track and get the nose removed.
Finally, at lap 10 we got going again for a great race.
In my photos, checkout the hot brakes on many of the cars. Then look at winner Josef Newgarden doing some really nice victory donuts with alot of smoke and perfectly shaped donuts! Those tires were done after that for sure but his "favorite race car" he said was fine to race again.
Had great weather and it was a fun time at Road America!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
- Racing
- Road America
- Indy Car
- Josef Newgarden
- Marcus Ericsson
- Alexander Rossi
- Romain Grojean
- Colton Herta
- Felix Rosenqvist
- Scott McLaughlin
- Graham Rahal
- Scott Dixon
- Simon Pagenaud
- Christian Lundgaard
- Callum Ilott
- Jack Harvey
- Conor Daly
- Takuma Sato
- David Malukas
- Rinus Veekay
- Devlin DeFrancesco
- Will Power
- Kyle Kirkwood
- Simona DeSilvestro
- Helio Castroneves
- Dalton Kellett
- Jimmie Johnson
- Tatiana Calderon
- Pato O'Ward
- Alex Palou