May 21, 2012

Attention lovers of my music blogs- for the next two weeks we are in the Indy 500 mode!  It's time for the "greatest spectacle in racing", the Indy 500!

We are almost ready for the 2012 Indy 500 race and it seems strange that we won't have last year's winner, Dan Wheldon, there to defend his Indy 500 win.  Dan also won the 2005 Indy 500 and he won the 24 hours of Daytona in 2006.  Dan died in 2011 in a terrible accident at the track in Las Vegas, the final race of the 2011 IRL season.

Dan, after finishing second in the Indy Lights championship in 2001, started his Indy Car run with Panther Racing in 2002.  In 2003, he became the rookie of the year driving for Andretti Green Racing and then for Target Chip Ganassi Racing.  When he won the Indy 500 in 2011 he was driving for Bryan Herta Autosport.  He was a superstitious man in that every time he got into the car he would pat the nose of his car three times!

I have a helmet visor of Dan's that he gave me in 2005 when I gave him some photographs.  I will be looking at it during the race this year and thinking about Dan.  He was a great race car driver and his record shows it. He won the 2005 Indy Racing League championship.

This week, as you enjoy the race, think about Dan and know he watching his friends from upstairs.

Attached are a few photographs from the past few years for you to enjoy.

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Rich Zimmermann