August 14, 2017
Last weekend was a busy and fun weekend at Road America with some crazy weather!
Friday it poured and looked like rain the whole weekend.
Sunday's race was awesome as Pipo Deroni and his teammates in the Nissan Tequila Patron car won! Pipo did the win with an amazing restart of the race with about half an hour left.
Congrats to James French who clinched his championship in the PC category at his home track!
Thanks to the Final Inspection show at 105.7fm and check out the guy with the Michelin Bibendum mascot!
Enjoy a look at some of the 1400 photos I took!
I was on the starters stand for the start of Sunday's race and the flyover with the planes looks awesome with the contrasting, rainy sky!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
IMSA at Road America August 4, 5 and 6 of 2017.
July 3, 2017
With summer here and life being so busy, I have started writing a blog every other week now. Indy cars last weekend and Summerfest this week, I'm too busy!
Here is a look at Friday of last weekend. The Indy Cars were at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI. It's such a beautiful track.
Colin Herta is going to be a great race car driver in the future and you get a look at him here. He is Bryan Herta's son, and being on the Andretti Motorsports team, this kid is going to go far. Fuel and turbo issues had him doing zero laps in the morning and then he came out to get pole position for race 2 of Indy Lights.
Enjoy a look and I have to gear up for Steve Miller tonight at Summerfest rain or shine!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
February 13, 2017
Today's little blog is a look at Willy T. Ribbs at Elkhart Lake's Road America. These photos were taken in 1993 at the CART series.
He raced for a few years and next week we will look at some more from 1993 at Milwaukee.
Have a good week.
Thanks,
Rich
Willy T. Ribbs at Road America in 1993.
December 19, 2016
Winter is in the state of Wisconsin, finally! We have snow and the cold all at once it seems. It's really beautiful and the snow is very fluffy. It's easy to shovel. The snowblower is out for repair, but it worked great when I tested it a month ago! Hopefully we will get it back soon, more snow on the way.
Well, I am scanning the 2003 race at Road America lately and for a few more weeks that is what we will be looking at. The cars were so great then. They had so much horsepower and they looked really nice.
These were the days with different engine and chassis manufacturers. It was during the years when teams put blankets over the car wings, both front and rear, to hide their secrets for more speed.
Enjoy a look at Tiago Monteiro again, plus Rudolfo Lavin, Mario Haberfeld, Ryan Hunter Reay and Oriol Servia.
Time to keep working on our basement project. We finished the painting last week and I finished the floor tiles yesterday on a day off of work! Now it's time for the cove molding and then it's about done!!!!!
Have a great week. Don't shovel too much and stay warm.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
P.S. Thanks to everyone who bought one of my Rich Zimmermann Photography rock'n roll calendars! Sold out early this year!
December 13, 2016
Well, it's been very busy around here lately and this is the first time I have ever missed writing my blog on time!! Sorry to my 2 followers! Hah!
We have been busy painting our basement and doing some remodeling work. We actually can see the finish line, I think!
So yesterday, 12-12-2016, was Emerson Fittipaldi's 70th birthday! I was planning on doing some Road America 2003 work here and with Emmo's birthday it works out nicely.
In 2003 I worked for Emerson's team, Fittipaldi Dingman, with driver Tiago Monteiro. Those were fun times!
Here are a few photos of Tiago and the birthday boy!
More to come soon.
Still have a couple 2017 Rich Zimmermann Photography calendars if anyone is interested. Email me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and I can get one to you for Christmas!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 25, 2016
On race day morning the Indy cars usually do a warmup session to make sure that all systems are working on the cars. This year at Road America it was raining in the morning for the warmup session. With the race weather predicted to be sunny and hot, nobody was going out for the warmup it seemed.
Then, I heard one Indy car spring to life and saw Sebastian Bourdais getting ready to go out! He was wearing some big wet weather boots until he got into his car. He had the track to himself for almost the whole session other than Graham Rahal going out for just one lap.
How much fun was he having?? I think a lot by the look on his face when he got out of the car. He was out there for probably about 10 laps and had the whole four mile track to himself. The sound of just one car and seeing the spray of water behind his car was awesome! In the photos you can see what a wet weather rain tire looks like. They move a lot of water! Normally, an Indy car runs slicks with no grooves at all. I have included a photo of Sebastian during the race and you can see the difference in the tires.
I also have included photos of Sebastian being introduced to the fans with Miss Wisconsin's help.
Also included here are photos of Mario Andretti and the lucky winner of the sweepstakes who got to ride in the two seater Indy car with him. A little height difference between the two men! Enter the sweepstakes at Honda.com and you might get to ride too!
Have a good week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
July 4, 2016
Happy 4th of July to all of my fellow Americans! Hope you all are having a nice holiday.
Well, I really enjoy shooting photos but then comes editing. An old wet darkroom to me was more fun than digital editing but the world has changed to digital.
I must say that it is easier to shoot 580 photographs in the digital world rather than film.
I have trimmed it down to 247 good photos and a few are shared here.
Some of these photos are from a press conference that Robin Miller had with Michael Andretti, Paul Tracy and Juan Pablo Montoya. It was awesome and I could have listened to their stories for days!
This was also the first time that I have met Alexander Rossi. He's a nice, really young man. Really young, or I'm getting really old?
Enjoy and more photos next week.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
