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July 26, 2021
The weekend of July 9 and 10 was a busy one for me! I photographed two concerts at Gathering On the Green and vintage racing at The Milwaukee Mile.
Friday and Saturday it was the vintage Miller Indy Cars with the Vintage Indy Reserve cars at the Milwaukee Mile. Then at night, it was country music on Friday with Trace Adkins with Matt Wynn opening the show for Gathering On The Green in Mequon, WI.
Saturday night was the band 52nd Street opening for Cheap Trick.
A grand total of a TON of photos and editing is what that means! Yes, it was fun but I didn't touch a camera or computer on Sunday!! Not a lot of sleep or rest Friday or Saturday. Time with my wonderful wife and relax on Sunday. Began the big editing job on Monday and it took a few days.
Have a look at Matt Wynn and Trace Adkins from a great show Friday night for Gathering On The Green at Rotary Park in Mequon. It's a beautiful outdoor venue. Check them out for future shows and next year's big weekend I'm sure will be awesome as usual.
What Gathering On The Green does for the community here in Mequon, WI and the area is great! They even had a raffle for a Fender Squire guitar autographed by Trace Adkins!! Please support them with their continuing shows and projects.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 12, 2021
Last week, I focused my blog on the Vintage Indy Reserve cars. This week, I'm showing you the Indy Cars that ran that same weekend at Road America.
Included in this blog are some Indy Lights, USF2000 and Indy Pro 2000 race cars and drivers.
The Indy Cars are my favorite race cars of all. They never cease to amaze me with what the drivers can do with them! Takuma Sato is a wild driver and his car shows it as the race went on. It will need some bodywork!
After two days of practice and qualifying, it seemed Joseph Newgarden had things under control for the pole and the race. Well, he got the pole position and led a lot of the race but did not win.
Joseph really seemed to have it done until the last few laps when his gearbox had other ideas. Alex Palou won the race and Colton Herta was close behind in second. Will Power finished third followed by Scott Dixon and the Formula 1 racers Marcus Ericsson and Romain Grosjean.
It was interesting to watch NASCAR Champion Jimmie Johnson trying to handle an Indy Car. It's going to take some time for him to get up to speed.
Not so for Formula 1 veterans Marcus Ericksson and Romain Grosjean. Romain really is fast and has adapted very well to Indy Car and is having fun being very competitive. Marcus and Romain will be winning soon I believe.
Check out the photos and enjoy the HOT brake photos taken near the end of the race. One actually looked like it was on fire! Unfortunately I missed that shot though..
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
- Racing
- Indy Car
- Road America
- Josef Newgarden
- Alex Palou
- Scott Dixon
- Colton Herta
- Scott McLaughlin
- Simon Pagenaud
- Dalton Kellett
- Pato O'Ward
- Alexander Rossi
- Kevin Magnussen
- Ryan HunterReay
- James Hinchcliffe
- Takuma Sato
- Jimmie Johnson
- Will Power
- Sebastian Bourdais
- Cody Ware
- Graham Rahal
- Max Chilton
- Ed Jones
- Jack Harvey
- Connor Daly
- Mario Andretti
- Romain Grosjean
- Marcus Ericsson
June 28, 2021
Had the great pleasure of being a photographer for the Vintage Indy Reserve Organization at Road America last weekend. It is an organization that tries to preserve, recognize and keep track of all vintage Indy cars.
This was the second year that these cars ran at Road America with the Indy Cars. They were on the track for only one session each day for 30 minutes. Actually, they only got to go out for two sessions because the vintage cars do not run in the rain and it poured Sunday afternoon!
The sessions this year included a Mini Cooper pace car driven by Al Unser Jr. who also got to drive his old Domino's Pizza Indy Car! I got photos of him getting out of the pace car after the one pace lap and getting into the Domino's Pizza car.
Little Al ran only one lap in the Domino's Pizza car and I never got to photograph him driving it. Can only move so fast!
Some Omologato watch awards were presented to Rick Dresang for his 30 years of service and to Al Unser Jr.!
It was a fun time with all these folks. My next blog will be on the Indy Cars that ran last weekend.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann