August 26, 2024
On the weekend of August 4th the IMSA teams came to Road America for some great racing.
The race had the Felipe Albuquerqe and Ricky Taylor WTR Acura on pole position and the Team Penske Porsches were close by. Friend Pipo Derani and his Action Express Cadillac with Jack Aitken were right up there as always during the race. Notice the back of Pipo Derani's helmet with the new addition to the family footprints!
The Covettes had a tough race with one of them getting punted off in turn five by the new Mustang GT3 at the second start.
In the end the Team Penske Porches finished first with Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet and second with Filipe Nasr and Dane Cameron.
Beautiful race day with beautiful race cars.
Enjoy and I'll let the photos do the talking!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 22, 2022
The IMSA races came to Road America for their annual visit on August 5-7, along with the usual rain.
It was great to see Robert Wikins racing again and Ryan Eversley racing in two different series during the weekend.
The Porsche Cup raced in the most rain but the big IMSA Sunday race was a race from lap one with a bit of rain thrown in.
Wayne Taylor Racing in their DPI Cadillac took the pole position for the Sunday race but lost the lead a few times. In the final laps with a pass on the grass, they got the win for Ricky Taylor and Philipe Albuquerque!
Fun weekend with a VERY hot Saturday of racing with the temperature reaching 92 degrees.
Enjoy a look at some of the fun and one of the last looks at the DPI cars as they are now. All the cars next year will be new.
The new Cadillacs and Acuras look fast and beautiful. Can't wait to see the final look of the cars.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
The 2018 IMSA race at Road America.
The 2017 IMSA race at Road America.
April 4, 2022
In 2007 the Indy Car racing world was very divided. We had the Indy Racing League (IRL), formed by Tony George in 2003 with his Indianapolis Motor Speedway at the helm. We also had the Champ Car World Series.
From 2003 through 2007 we had the IRL and Champ Car as two separate series. It was a mess and mistake by Tony George that Indy Car is just now recovering from. In 2008 it became one series again called Indy Car as it still is today.
I was photographing the IRL at the Milwaukee Mile and the Champ Cars at Road America each year for four years.
On August 12, 2007, the Generac Champ Car Grand Prix at Road America was held. Race driver Sebastien Bourdais won the race and end up winning his fourth straight championship at the end of the year. Seabass, as we call him, was fast everywhere then and still is now.
Dan Clarke finished second and a very young Graham Rahal finished third.
All of the Champ Car race cars were beautiful and fast looking with great paint jobs.
Enjoy a look at the guys and a young Katherine Legge racing around beautiful Road America.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
The Champ Car and IMSA series at Road America in 2007.
September 6, 2021
Been a bit crazy since our big storm on August 10th here in Brookfield, Wisconsin. It's not hard to get frustrated with insurance companies and replacing appliances!!
Finally got some time to finish editing part 2 of the IMSA race weekend at Road America. It was great fun with the Whelen guys and congrats to Pipo Derani and Filipe Nasr!!
Enjoy a look at that weekend and the winners circle celebration.
Now I'm getting ready for Summerfest music photo fun!!
Be well, safe and enjoy the photos.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 23, 2021
Hi folks, and wow have we had fun around here lately!
The three days of IMSA at Road America were fantastic with my friends at Action Express and Whelen Racing getting the win.
Drivers Pipo Derani and Philipe Nasr with the team led by Tim Keene got it done and won! Very happy for them and well deserved.
Had a great time with Pipo and the team in between shooting a ton of photos which is why this blog has 2 parts. The second half will be coming up next.
The photos here are mostly of Friday and Saturday but a couple are of the victory celebration. I had to show Pipo being tossed into his crew in the winners circle. Good thing they caught him!
After the racing on the evening of August 10th we got a huge storm in our neighborhood here in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Trees took out the power wires a few doors down and tore the power pole off of our house and we had no power for four days. Thankful that we have a generator but the power surge blew a lot of appliances and we are still trying to figure things out. VERY thankful the surge protector in the office here did it's job saving the computers and hard drives.
Haven't had enough time to edit everything yet because of the storm but enjoy these photos and more are coming soon.
Be safe everyone.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
August 17, 2020
IMSA racing at Road America is such a fun time. This year we had rain coming down so hard at times. It was just crazy!! I've photographed in the rain before but nothing like this.
The race was red flagged I think twice because of the downpours. My favorite photo might be of corner worker Nate Kosak. He was waving the red flag in turn five with the Whelen Cadillac. The Cadillac had a broken nose and there was one other accident that was enough to call for a red flag to stop the race for a bit. Cars were flying everywhere and hydroplaning if they could see at all because of the rain.
In between the rain storms I had a chance to run to my Acura and drive it from turn five to turn eight. The good thing about both of these turns is they have little platforms with a wooden roof to hide in from the rain! I actually was fairly dry other than my tennis shoes! I wrapped the Sony camera in a towel to shoot through and it worked out well.
There are a ton a photographs to look at here.
Crazy race on Sunday! Congratulations to Helio Castroneves who got the win! He deserved it for leading most of the day and really being chased by the Mazda team and a couple of Cadillacs.
The Corvettes had a great race finishing one and two with a pass of the BMW in the rain!! Love the side by side in the rain Corvette photo!!
Aaron Telitz our Wisconsin guy put his Lexus on pole but the crazy day had him finish third. Next time Aaron!!
Enjoy some wet and dry photos of a wild weekend.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
IMSA having fun in the wet and dry at Road America! I've never gotten sooooo wet at a race but it makes for great photos!!