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Brad Pitt on the cover of the new RACER magazine? That’s a first. But it’s entirely appropriate as we get set for the release of a movie that could connect Formula 1 with an entirely new audience.

Refresh. Reset. Restart. Those are the underlying themes of the latest issue of RACER magazine, The New Challenges Issue.On the content side, that means RACER No. 333 is taking a deep dive into Lewis Hamilton’s reenergizing switch to Ferrari, and asking whether the 40-year-old, seven-time Formula 1 World Champion still...

There’s an image in the new issue of RACER magazine that stopped me in my tracks. It’s Roger Penske, an all-business expression on his face, with every one of his “Baby Borg” trophies – one for each of his 20 Indianapolis 500 wins as a team owner.Michael Levitt’s shot is...

It’s the end of the year, the off-season for most major race series (although not all – step forward Formula E…) and the perfect time for RACER to look back on just a few of the significant accomplishments from 2024 in our Champions Issue.But first, let’s rewind to something we...

The RACER magazine hitting mailboxes and inboxes right about now is our annual Great Cars Issue, but it could well have been called The Adrian Newey Issue, such is the Formula 1 design genius’s presence in it.We take a look at some of his groundbreaking cars from three decades of...

Timing is everything, as 2024 Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden explains in the new issue of RACER magazine.The culmination of a duel worthy of one of the world’s legendary races, Newgarden’s last-lap move on Pato O’Ward, when he passed the Arrow McLaren around the outside through Turn 3, proved decisive...

It’s been 30 years since Ayrton Senna lost his life at Imola’s San Marino Grand Prix, May 1, 1994.Naturally, given such a milestone, Ayrton graces the cover of RACER No. 328, our annual Heroes Issue.The Brazilian’s Formula 1 career stands among the all-time greatest, but accomplishments aside, he had a...

Has Red Bull Racing changed the game again with its “controlled aggression” RB20 as Max Verstappen goes for a fourth straight Formula 1 World Championship, or can Ferrari, Mercedes, McLaren or Aston Martin Martin close down the gap? The opening two grands prix showed Max taking up where he left...

If the build-up to last year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was all about the new hybrid GTP prototypes, then 2024 is the year when the GT classes are cranking up the excitement and anticipation levels.That’s not to say that GTP isn’t providing its own share of fresh storylines -- try...

The star of RACER’s annual Champions Issue that’s now heading to mailboxes and available for digital subscribers is Formula 1 dominator Max Verstappen.For us, there’s something refreshingly old school about the three-time champ and shatterer of F1 records.Not for Verstappen the endless, micro-obsessing debriefs fueled by seemingly infinite amounts of...