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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 29, 2023
Happy Memorial Day to everyone and thank you to all who have served our country including my father. Without them and their service we all might not be here.
So yesterday was one of the craziest Indianapolis 500 races I've ever seen! Won by Josef Newgarden on the last lap when he passed Marcus Ericsson. Congratulations to Josef who has now won the Indy 500 on his 12th try!
After that pass was the now famous "Dragon Move" to keep the lead and win. This move has been used for the third year now and apparently is here to stay. It breaks the air on the car following you so the following car doesn't get in your draft for a pass.
Josef won the race for Team Penske and it's Roger Penske's 19th win at the famed speedway that he now owns.
The race had a bunch of wild crashes and a tire that flew off and landed on a spectator's car thankfully and didn't hit anyone!
The photos here are from last year's race at Road America. Josef Newgarden won the race and got some donuts done in turn 5 which he didn't get to do at the Indy 500.
Enjoy a look at the players from the Indy 500 this year with last year's Road America race photos.
There are also photos here of Alex Palou who won the pole position at Indy plus Pato O'Ward, Felix Rosenquist and Marcus Ericsson.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
May 15, 2023
On July 7, 2023 at Milwaukee's Summerfest we all got a great treat with Rod Stewart and his band.
It was a great show with a HUGE stage setup. His band included a harp and four girls playing and singing that helped him open the show with Robert Palmer's song "Addicted To Love".
With the two girls on either side of Rod all in the same outfits, it looked just like Robert Palmer's MTV video years ago of the song.
Exceptional band and show!
Enjoy these photos of the show.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
