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 on the word he coined in 2017 for IndyCar's leadership, and the decade of evidence that has since caught up with it.

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

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.

Racing was once sold as "The Sport of the Seventies." Fifty years later, Paul Pfanner looks at why Formula One's creators are reaching an audience its traditional media never could.

Paul Pfanner remembers his friend Jeff Krosnoff, thirty years on from his tragic death.

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.

Paul Pfanner on Pikes Peak, a mountain that's been deciding things by the numbers since 1916, and the competitors taking it on.

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 one test that tells a free press from a captured one. Madison, Murrow, and a standard that takes no side.

Paul Pfanner on people still arguing over who won The Split — and why the best version of IndCar is the one happening now.

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

A Ferrari is supposed to stop you in your tracks. Paul Pfanner has loved every Ferrari he ever saw — explains why the Luce EV doesn't move him, and why no amount of time will fix it.

Paul Pfanner surveys Sunday's 110th Indianapolis 500 — Felix Rosenqvist's 0.0233-second win for Meyer Shank Racing, the closest finish in race history — and argues that the Penske Entertainment era, reached its best day to date.

Paul Pfanner accepts the 2026 Russo-Marvel Founders Award and challenges the journalists who cover motorsports to build the future of their profession in an age of AI.

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.

As Paul Pfanner receives the SPMJ Russo-Marvel Founders Award, he offers a meditation on learning, proximity, and who journalists actually work for.