On the morning of October 16, 2005, I sat in the media briefing room of what was then known as California Speedway in Fontana, California waiting for a press conference to begin. It would reveal the future of the Indy 500 and the fate of the IndyCar Series. Honda’s motorsport...

Beginning with the first issue in May 1992, Roger Penske and Team Penske have been featured on the cover of RACER magazine 44 times. No other team comes close.The video below looks back at those covers, which demonstrate the consistent excellence of the organization throughout RACER‘s first third-century, accompanied by...

I’ve been fan of IndyCar racing since I was nine years old. Viewing the 1964 Indy 500 live on a closed circuit black and white TV broadcast in a theater with hundreds of die-hard racing fans delivered an irresistible emotional gravity that hooked me then and has held me ever...

As we stand on the precipice of the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season, it’s impossible not to feel a palpable sense of momentum. The buzz surrounding America’s premier sports car racing series isn’t just about the amazing array of beautiful and exotic GTP and GT cars, or the great...

As someone who has spent over five decades immersed in the world of motorsports — and as a dedicated Supercross fan since the mid-1970s — it’s rare for a film to genuinely stop me in my tracks. But Pay Dirt, Paul Taublieb’s latest cinematic triumph, did exactly that. This film...

RACER Media & Marketing (“RACER”), the most respected motorsports media brand in North America, today announced key leadership appointments and a strategic partnership that will further accelerate the company’s growth and innovation within the motorsports and performance automotive industries.Joining CEO Paul Pfanner and Editor In Chief Laurence Foster are Scott...

It was 12 years ago this past weekend that the RACER 3.0 Era began, as we revealed the first new-look issue featuring the radical Delta Wing IMSA racecar on the cover. This followed the company being reacquired by the founders only a month before. It was a brave reset of...

After 80 years of continuous publication, the January/February 2024 Issue of SportsCar magazine is the final regularly published issue. It is also the last SportsCar produced by Racer Media & Marketing, Inc. Our company has published the magazine since January 1984, since then we’ve delivered 462 issues, which represents exactly...

Time is a racer’s unrelenting enemy, and speed is their ultimate ally. There is only now in the race to what’s next. Performance under pressure reveals the great ones, who do much more than merely entertain us. They show us what is possible when we push ourselves to the limit,...

The winter of 2023 has been an offseason of discontent within the NTT IndyCar Series. In particular, the past 10 days have revealed some unsettling realities that require immediate and thoughtful attention following confirmation of another delay of the mild hybrid powertrain formula that was originally set to debut at...