The annual SVRA 2023 event at Road America is always fun!
June 12, 2023
On May 20th I took my first trip of the year to Road America for the annual SVRA racing meet.
There are so many classes of cars in different groups that it gets rather confusing to track a driver after learning what group he is in! Then, I have to figure out when they are going out on track!
Found the F4 cars easily enough but they had a lot of crashes on Saturday afternoon. I think they may have actually had 5 green flag laps for their whole race! There were a lot of damaged cars on one lap in two different parts of the race course. There was another crash with a few cars before that.
Cleanup time took a large portion of their race on Saturday. Too bad they didn't get more green flag racing done.
The track itself looks beautiful with a total repavement done. There is no seam on the track itself. It's amazing and every year they keep making improvements to Road America. There is now a beach with palm trees and sand on the outside of the Carousel portion of the track! It's a nice new viewing and photo spot that used to be really hard to get to.
They continue to plant new trees and the carvings on the fallen or dead ash trees are really amazing. Checkout the owls in the photo below and there are many others with wolves and bears and more.
Enjoy a look and hope to see you at Road America soon.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
May 31, 2021
Happy Memorial Day and thank you to all our servicemen and women for their service.
I'm writing this on May 29th, the day before the Indy 500. Hoping for a good safe race tomorrow!
This blog is about the Spring Vintage Festival at Road America a few weeks ago on May 14, 15 and 16. The SVRA puts on a great event with many classes of cars.
It's hard to pick a favorite class or car but Rod Radman, a nice young high school kid from Cedarburg, showed what he can do. He is fast and I believe he has a great future climbing the Indy Car ladder.
Rod and his red open wheel car were flying fast all weekend. Congratulations to him and keep it up young man. I know we have not seen the last of you!
The little Mini Cooper you see here was also a site to see, with it's left rear wheel in the air on turn five in every lap!
A beautiful red Jaguar XKE is my style of car and was running well you will see. Speaking of red cars, Andy Pilgrim was great to see in his Ferrari in a winning way!
The F4 open wheel series made their first appearance at Road America and was fun to watch.
One photo I really like is of the cars on the grid with a guy crawling underneath the car!! Yup, car wouldn't start and a smack of the hammer on the starter got her going!!
Enjoy a look at a lot of cool cars on a nice weekend.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
The racing season began at Road America on May 14, 2021 this year for me and a bunch of folks!