The new IndyCar IR-28 didn't come from nowhere. Paul Pfanner traces the forces that shaped it, and the cars that were drawn but never built, to show how the sport arrived here and the choice it faces next.

Paul Pfanner on what the next Indy car should be built to prove once raw speed has reached its useful limit. Third in his series on the future of the sport.

Paul Pfanner on why the new 2028 IndyCar sent him back to the race-car designs he drew as a teenager, now rendered with AI, and what a sport loses when it settles for just being a show.

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.

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.

Paul Pfanner on IndyCar's new IR-28, and what a race car is for once the meaning leaves the machine.

The pipe keeps changing. The asset never does. Paul Pfanner on why the brands that create the future read Now with intention — and what that means for you.