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You Are Here to Witness Truth

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.

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Racing is Learning

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

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The Company You Keep

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 .

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Get Out

Paul Pfanner spent decades inside motorsport media — and watched the infrastructure around independent journalism quietly thin. In Suzuka last Thursday, Max Verstappen walked through a door that was already open. What fills that space looks like coverage. It isn't.

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