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Standing Still at 230 Miles Per Hour

Paul Pfanner on why IndyCar's new car is frozen on purpose, now that a broadcaster owns a third of the series, and what that costs in a world moving faster than 230 mph.

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A Moonshot Run Out of a Race Shop

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.

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The Age of Distribuption is Now

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.

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Open Track

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

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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.

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