Chip Ganassi just passed Roger Penske for the most championships in IndyCar history. Paul Pfanner on the racer behind the record, and why he is nowhere near done.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

For sixty years one organization has dominated sport and business with a consistency no one has fully explained. The results are visible to everyone. The source of the advantage is something most organizations walk right past.

The Borg-Warner Trophy records every Indianapolis 500 winner in silver. One face is still missing. Not because the talent doesn't exist. Because the moment hasn't arrived yet.

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?