May 23, 2016
This week's blog takes us back to CART racing in 1990 at Elkhart Lake's Road America.
These were the days when Porsche was into Indy cars, and had Teo Fabi as it's driver.
Alfa Romeo was also on the grid along with Cosworth and Chevy and more.
Competition was good with the different engine manufacturers.
Roger Penske had Danny Sullivan, Rick Mears and Emerson Fittipaldi who had won the championship in 1989. A three car team was not normal in 1990 like it is today.
So, take a look at Eddie Cheever, Didie Theys and Al Unser Jr. in the good old days. A.J. Foyt was still racing then too.
After taking a second look, a few of these photos are from 1989 at Road America! Still good old stuff to look at!
Get ready for the 100th running of the Indy 500!
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
April 11, 2016
Racing season has begun with practice laps being run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!
Nascar doesn't count with me, and yes, we have had a few Indy car races, but this year we have the 100th running of the Indy 500!
Here are some old photos from the late 1980's and 1990 with some different forms of real racing!
Check out Rick Mears, Emerson Fittipaldi, Geoff Brabham, Bill Seebold and a few other folks way back when and get ready for the 100th Indy 500. All of these guys were the best in their race craft.
Who are you picking for the winner if the Indy 500? It's early yet but I'm going with Scott Dixon.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
Some different racing styles to look at to get us going this year!
Tiago Monteiro in 2003 at Road America.
Road America, in beautiful Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.
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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Rich Zimmermann
September 9, 2012
This is my 25th blog today!! Time goes by quickly. Today, we have our first regular season Packer game of the year against the San Francisco 49ers at Lambeau Field.
The attached photographs include a couple from 1989 when a Chicago Bear football great named Walter Payton was racing sport cars at Road America in Elkhart Lake. I remember Walter being very nice and really having fun driving his car. If he was still with us, who knows what he could have accomplished in racing too. He was one of the best in football even though he was a Chicago Bear!!
This past week we all found out that the American LeMans series and the Daytona Prototype Series will merge in 2014. My hope is that we have some pretty race cars to watch because I never liked the look of the Daytona Prototype cars until this past year. The new Corvettes looked good and fast but the ALMS cars really are more pleasing to my eyes.
Maybe Dan Gurney shown here on his motorcycle can help design some nice new cars.
Enjoy the football today and Go Packers!!
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Rich Zimmermann
August 20, 2012
This past weekend the American LeMans Series (ALMS) was at Elkhart Lake. This form of racing in 1991 was called the International Motor Sports Associations (IMSA) Camel GT and it was big racing!
Camel cigarettes sponsored the series and some of the major car manufacturers were really into this form of racing in a big way. Dan Gurney had the Toyota Eagles with Juan Manuel Fangio II in one car and P J Jones in the other. Geoff Brabham and Chip Robinson were driving the Nissans The Bud Light Jaguar of Davey Jones was amazing and Wayne Taylor in the Chevy Intrepid also tried to keep up the pace.
The days of Porsche winning everything by 1991 was done since Toyota, Nissan, Jaguar and Chevy were now racing with huge budgets.
Enjoy a few memorable photographs from the Nissan Grand Prix at Road America won by Davy Jones in his Jaguar on August 25, 1991.
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Rich Zimmermann
August 6, 2012
The week of August 26, 1973 I was thinking of college and my pursuit of an associate degree in photography at MATC. Before school would begin, I thought a nice break was in order.
Friends were camping at the Jaycee campground close to Elkhart Lake's Road America that weekend and invited me to come and bring a tent and any high powered stereo gear I had since they had an audio power competition I believe you would call it. I owned a Phase Linear 400 watt power amplifier and that is the real reason I was invited! My Phase Linear had been tweaked and could put out about 500 watts of power, 250 a channel and it rocked. It produced very LOUD, clear sound and I believe we won the competition pairing it with my McIntosh C26 Pre amp and a friend's HUGE Klipshorn speakers!
This was also the time for the Can-Am at Elkhart Lake's Road America. Seeing and hearing Mark Donahue in the "Monster" Porsche 917-30 was amazing. That car was so beautiful and had so much power with Mark driving. No one had a chance unless it broke down, which it did not, and he won. The black Shadow cars were also one of the other wonderful sights to see that weekend.
After that break I was ready for college!
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Rich Zimmermann
