October 28, 2013

I have not done a racing blog in a while. It's time for me to congratulate Scott Dixon, our new 2013 IRL Series Champion!

Scott has always been one of the nicest and most humble guys in pit lane.

He won the Indy 500 in 2008 from the pole position and won the IRL championship in 2003 and 2008 with Target and Chip Ganassi Racing.

Here are some photos from 2007 to this past year at the Milwaukee Mile.

Enjoy and congratulations Scott!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

June 17, 2013

By now, all the race cars have been packed into their trucks and are headed back home. Milwaukee IndyFest 2013 is over and it was a good one!

Ryan Hunter Reay won the race for the second year in a row and Helio Castroneves had a great race finishing second. Helio had a good idea. They substituted Wisconsin State Fair cream puffs for the traditional podium champagne!

Marco Andretti, won the pole position and had a few problems during the race. In the end it was Ryan's day.

Graham and Bobby Rahal looked frustrated and couldn't find any speed.

Sage Karam, won the Indy Lights race and was fast all weekend.

Alex Tagliani spun his car right in front of me in turn 4 during the race!

Oriol Servia and JR Hildebrand were looking for Indy Car rides walking around pit lane.

Tony Kanaan, our Indy 500 winner, was very busy with the media and fans. He had a pretty good race.

It was good to see Sebastian Bourdais back in an Indy car. It was the prettiest car on track but full of problems!

Some of the race's highlights are shown in the attached photos.

Have a good week and if you would like a copy of any photo please contact us.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

June 10, 2013

This coming weekend Milwaukee's IndyFest is going to happen!

This past weekend the Indy cars were in Texas and Helio Castroneves won the race and did his usual fence climbing after he won!

I am hoping Helio wins Milwaukee and the championship!

He's fun to watch and follow because he has sooo much energy.

His good friend Tony Kanaan won the Indy 500 and now Helio is on his way to hopefully winning the IRL championship.

Attached are photos of Helio's first year in an Indy car at the Milwaukee Mile in 1999. He won the pole position that weekend with a new track record. Also attached are some pictures from last year's race at Milwaukee IndyFest.

Enjoy and come join us this coming weekend for some Indy car fun!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

April 8, 2013,

Just a very quick blog today because it's Spring and we have chores to do!! 

I did those chores while watching Ryan Hunter Reay win a great race in Alabama.  His shoes were busy in the cockpit today.  Here are some photos from the 2012 IRL race at the Milwaukee Mile.

Enjoy, and as always, they are on sale for a limited time this week only, a 13 X 19 is $60.00 for a limited edition print!!!

Contact us soon and have a great week.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

March 25, 2013

As I write this blog on Sunday March 24, my IRL Indy Car racers are racing in the streets and on the runway of the airport in St. Petersburg, Florida!  The Indy Car season has begun!

I wish them a safe season and hope that Marco Andretti has a year to remember.  He always races well at Indy and on the ovals, but seems to have issues with the road and street courses.

According to a few publications I have read, he is changing his driving style this year.  Hopefully that will help him win some races.  Then maybe he could go for the championship because I know he has it in him to do it!

With his father, Michael Andretti, and grandpa, Mario, he has some good guidance.  Good luck Marco and be fast!

Enjoy a few photographs from 2006 and 2008 at the Milwaukee Mile.

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Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

March 18, 2013

The start of the open wheel race season is this weekend in Melbourne, Australia with Formula 1.  Next weekend we have the IRL in St. Petersburg, Florida.  It's time for a racing blog!

Today, we look back at Danica Patrick in 2005 at the Milwaukee Mile's IRL race.

Danica had three years of Toyota Atlantic racing and many years of kart experience.  She was now ready for Indy cars.  Bobby Rahal and David Letterman took a chance and put her on their team with Buddy Rice as her teammate.

She had a pretty good year winning the Rookie of the Year award and finished 12th in points.  Her highlight of the year was the Indy 500 where she started 4th and finished 4th and also led for 19 laps.  She was the first woman to lead at Indianapolis in history.

Danica also earned 3 pole positions in 2005.  At Milwaukee she started 6th and finished 19th due to an accident.

Thanks to Danica, every little girl was now into racing and Indy cars.  I also think that Danica was a popular name for babies in 2005!  When these little girls grow up we will find out how many become race car drivers and have the name Danica.

Television ratings went up and so did interest in Indy cars thanks to Danica.  Every step of her life was now being followed. Her parents, Bev and TJ, have been her number one supporters.

It is a nice little racing family and I continue to wish them the best of luck even though she is now in NASCAR!

Blog photos for your office or race room are on sale for $50.00 for a limited edition 8 1/2 X 11 archival print.  Danica would look nice in your race room. Wouldn't she?

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

Scott Brayton at the Milwaukee Mile in 1993.

Milwaukee Mile

January 21, 2013

In June of 1990, the CART Indy Cars came to the Milwaukee Mile for their traditional visit the weekend after the Indy 500.  The cars in 1990 were full of horsepower and had a sexier look compared to those of today.  The helmets were also very different back then and this was before the now manditory HANS device for neck support.  Back then, drivers simply used a foam donut collar for support!!

Emerson Fittipaldi was, and still is, my favorite race car driver.  In 1990 he had the number 1 on his car after winning the Indy Car Championship the year before.  He had won in Formula One cars, retired and then came back in winning form with Roger Penske's racing team.  Emerson raced for a few more years and even tried being an Indy car team owner with Tiago Montiero as a driver for a year.  I miss seeing Emerson drive these days because he really had determination to win whenever he was in the race car.

Attached are a few photographs from the race at the Milwaukee Mile in 1990 and a photo of the qualifying speeds on the board that was used that day.  This was still a time when we just had a board instead of computer screens everywhere with information for us all to see!!

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Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

December 17, 2012

A.J. Foyt has driven just about every type of race car.  His specialty and love has always been Indy Cars, either old roadster type or the present day rear engine car.

He is now a team owner in the IRL Indy Car series, but in 1990, as we see here, he was racing in the CART series against Mario Andretti and others.  The images attached are from the 1990 season at the Milwaukee Mile and Elkhart Lake's, Road America, where A.J. had his terrible accident going off in Turn 1 and really damaging his feet.

The rivalry between he and Mario was made for television and it brought crowds to the race track.  However, it has been said that they were never really friends.   In two of the pictures attached here of A. J. and Mario, I would really like to know what they are saying to each other!

A.J. has had some coarse relationships with his drivers but that is because of his love of racing I think.  Tony Stewart is the one driver that had a great time with A.J. and when Tony won the NASCAR championship a while ago A.J. was the first phone call Tony got to congratulate him!

We need more racers like A.J. Foyt and Mario that live for Indy Car racing.

Attached are a few photographs from the race that day for you to enjoy.

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Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann