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The New IndyCar is No Accident

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.

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The Fastest Thing Off the Shelf?

Paul Pfanner asks whether IndyCar has permanently turned its race car into standard equipment, what that trades away, and why the choice that builds what comes next has to be made now.

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The Museum and the Paddock

Paul Pfanner sets the reimagined IMS Museum against today's paddock and asks what the Indy car after the IR-28 should add to a century of cars that made change visible

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The Wrong Question

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

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The Split at 30

Paul Pfanner was at Michigan the day American open-wheel racing split itself in two in 1996 — Thirty years later, he returns to Indianapolis for the 110th Running with the story of what it took to go back - to the future.

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IMSA: The Future is Now.

The future isn't coming to IMSA. It has always been here. Paul Pfanner’s half-century perspective on the sport, the brand, and the spirit that connects them.

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