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.

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.

Alex Zanardi chose to live fully when circumstance took everything. Four stories about truth and learning. One question. Paul Pfanner asks what are you doing with more learning power than any point in human in history?

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

Formula E's Gen 4 arrives exactly on time. Paul Pfanner questions whether its owners understand what they're holding.

Jim France never wanted to be CEO. He wanted to build things and stay out of the spotlight. Then the sport needed him. Paul Pfanner on what those eight years meant.

Fifty-one years on the same streets. Paul Pfanner on what Indychella actually revealed — and why the sport that didn't build that audience now has one chance to deserve it.

Paul Pfanner is the 2026 Russo-Marvel Founders Award recipient. He dedicates it to the late Jim Michaelian — and to the reporters and editors who held the standard in the sport he dedicated his life to .

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.

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.