Paul Pfanner Paul Pfanner

Invent the Future

Paul Pfanner on why the new 2028 IndyCar sent him back to the race-car designs he drew as a teenager, now rendered with AI, and what a sport loses when it settles for being a show.

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Bill Long Bill Long

I’m Never Going There Again…

In his latest Long Views column, Bill Long looks at the quiet sentence that costs brands the most, "I'm never going there again," and why the word that should worry you is "again."

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Paul Pfanner Paul Pfanner

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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Paul Pfanner Paul Pfanner

Who Pays The Witness?

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.

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Bill Sparks Bill Sparks

The Trillion Dollar Question

Bill Sparks asks whether the AI boom is a bubble waiting to pop — and lays out what the hyperscalers pouring hundreds of billions into infrastructure still have to prove before the checks stop clearing.

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Paul Pfanner Paul Pfanner

Who Owns The Audience Now?

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.

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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.

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