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

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 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 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.

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.

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 .