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September 12, 2016
Wow!! It's a very busy weekend around here fighting horn worms on our tomato plants!!!! Never heard of these things until a month ago and now I can't get rid of them and I'll be dreaming of them soon!!
First one, then another and then Friday night three of them!! Today, one this morning and now I come back from our bike ride to find another!! Yuck!!! Photos will have to come soon I guess because you will not believe these things!!
Anyway, here is a follow up to the 1991 Indy cars at the Milwaukee Mile! Last weeks blog featured photos of Al Unser Jr. in 1991 at the famous Milwaukee Mile.
Here is Mario and Michael Andretti and Carl Haas giving a blessing to the nose of Michael's car on race day morning! It was a ritual every race day!!
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Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
May 16, 2016
Well, as I see it, 1993 was a VERY good year for Indy car racing. Last week I shared some pictures with you and now I have more for you to see from 1993.
Bobby Rahal won the 1992 CART championship and Emerson Fittipaldi had just won the Indy 500, a week before these photos were taken.
Jacques Villeneuve is shown in his Toyota Atlantic car here. This being the year before he went on into Indy cars. Nigel Mansell and Mario Andretti were teammates who did not get along. There are so many stories here in these photos. One of my favorites is the photo of Mario and Paul Newman. Then we have Carl Haas and his never lit cigar that he always seemed to have. These were the people that made Indy car racing what it is today and I thank them for that.
There are a lot of photos here for you to enjoy! Check them out.
Thanks,
Rich Zimmermann
October 22,, 2012
It was a hot day on June 7th 1987 when I went to the Milwaukee Mile to see the CART Indy cars race. I have always loved Indy cars but had not been to a race in years because I was too busy trying to make a career as a rock 'n' roll photographer!
I took my Nikon camera and sat in the grandstands with some friends who were there to cheer for Rick Mears. It was hard for me to just sit there in my seat! I wanted to be closer to the action to get a better photograph with all the colors of the cars. The best I could do was walk down to the fence and try to shoot through it, or somehow use the fence in the photograph.
Rock 'n' roll photography was going to the back seat for a while because now I wanted to be an Indy car racing photographer for a magazine or the Milwaukee Mile or anyone!
The race itself that day was a good one with Michael Andretti, the son of Mario Andretti, starting fourth and winning the race in his Kraco car. Roberto Guerreo started on the pole in his True Value car but finished 16th. Bobby Rahal in his Red Roof Inns car started second and finished second. Derek Daly came in third and then went on to become an announcer. He has a son, Conor, who races just like Bobby Rahal's son Graham races, Arie Luyendyk's son, Arie Jr., and Michael Andretti's son, Marco! Rick Mears did not finish the race that day. He crashed. Many fans at the race came to see Arie Luyendyk who was living not far from the track and was sponsored by the local company Provimi Veal. Arie started sixth and finished fourth.
Attached are a few photographs from the race that day for you to enjoy.
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Rich Zimmermann