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.

Motorsport no longer needs magazines to reach its fans. Paul Pfanner on the independent people who make the work worth saving — and the spirit of RACER magazine he still believes in.

Paul Pfanner on the week Ford proved AI is a brilliant tool and a costly replacement.

Paul Pfanner argues the audience has changed who it trusts for good, from institutions to individuals, and asks what that leaves someone still playing by the old rules.

Paul Pfanner makes the case that the flood of machine-made content is raising the price of the few things no machine can fake.

Licenses are decreasing, robotaxis are ordinary traffic, and the open road is pricing itself out of reach. Paul Pfanner argues that what's shrinking isn't mobility but the driver.

Paul Pfanner on the 2026 regulations, what Monaco will force Formula 1 to decide, and why the audience has already voted.

When Mohamed El-Erian says he understated something, pay attention. Paul Pfanner has been reading recessions long enough to explain why.

Paul Pfanner traces the three data points that have already decided the future of sport, mobility, and media — and asks why the industry is still arguing with the scoreboard.

On the anniversary of RACER's launch at the Long Beach Grand Prix in 1992, Paul Pfanner reflection on what it costs to build something that lasts — and what it teaches you.

Paul Pfanner reflects on Artemis II, his father's Apollo work, and what sport has always understood about human beings operating at their absolute best.

The greatest performers in every field share one discipline: the capacity to operate fully in the present moment under real consequence. Two new words name what they practiced — and what the forces reshaping modern life are designed to prevent.

Paul Pfanner spent decades inside motorsport media — and watched the infrastructure around independent journalism quietly thin. In Suzuka last Thursday, Max Verstappen walked through a door that was already open. What fills that space looks like coverage. It isn't.

The economics are strong and the audience is growing. But the systems now controlling distribution, behavior, and value are reshaping what the sport actually is. The most important asset may be the one no spreadsheet captures.

Melbourne opened Formula 1's new regulatory era with record attendance and genuine excitement. Beneath that, a harder question is already forming. The real power unit has never been mechanical.

The ghost in the machine is no longer hidden — and that changes the equation for every organization running on complex systems. The discomfort isn't the problem. It's the signal.

Every era has a moment when the future stops being theoretical and starts moving. Leaders who think they're keeping pace may want to reconsider. Are you moving — or just reacting?