Standing Still at 230 Miles Per Hour
Paul Pfanner on why IndyCar's new car is frozen on purpose, now that a broadcaster owns a third of the series, and what that costs in a world moving faster than 230 mph.
A Moonshot Run Out of a Race Shop
Paul Pfanner was in the All American Racers shop in 2018 when this car's corroded, unfinished monocoque came down from the rafters. Now it's finished, and he explains why its fifty-eight-year wait matters to anyone with an idea on the bench.
The Future Arrived Looking Familiar
Paul Pfanner on IndyCar's new IR-28, and what a race car is for once the meaning leaves the machine.
The Age of Distribuption is Now
Paul Pfanner on the word he coined in 2017 for IndyCar's leadership, and the decade of evidence that has since caught up with it.
Open Track
Paul Pfanner on the barrier that used to make ideas expensive to build — the people, the capital, the years — and why its collapse is the most open stretch of track he's seen in five decades
The Race We Can’t Lose
Bill Long, former CEO of MEMA, on why USMCA isn't enough — and why global competitiveness is the race American manufacturing can't afford to lose.
