The Driver
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.
Marque Down
The car brands you grew up with are being repriced all at once, and the sport that depends on them hasn't gotten the invoice yet. Paul Pfanner on Porsche, the yen, China, and a pattern he has watched form before.
The Big Idea: Lessons in Transformative Growth
Bill Long on the big ideas that reinvent an industry, from a brick racetrack built in 1909 to IndyCars running the streets of Washington, DC in 2026, and why playing it safe carries a real risk of its own.
It Was Never Just the Car, It’s Who gets the Seat
Paul Pfanner published the magazines you grew up on. Fifth in his series on the next IndyCar, on the half of the question the IR-28 can't answer: who still reaches the seat.
What Comes After Faster?
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.
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.
Real Just Got Expensive
Paul Pfanner makes the case that the flood of machine-made content is raising the price of the few things no machine can fake.
The Best is Now
Paul Pfanner on people still arguing over who won The Split — and why the best version of IndCar is the one happening now.
Sunday Made the Case
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.
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.
Now is Impatient
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.
Now Processors
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.
Everything Matters
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.
