As a professional racecar driver and a life-long motorsports fan, JR Hildebrand sees racing from all sides. The 12-time Indy 500 starter joins the RACER Debrief to talk about bringing back the awesome to open-wheel racing – for drivers and for fans – and gives us his take on a potential solution for resetting the spectacle and the challenge: the Blackbird 66 Mk.1.   

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We get the lowdown from 11-time Indianapolis 500 starter Oriol Servia on what made Alex Palou a force of nature in the 2025 NTT IndyCar Series. And as the Chip Ganassi Racing ace racked up the wins – eight in total, including the Indy 500 – and a fourth IndyCar title, why couldn’t a stacked field put up a fight against the rampant Spaniard? Plus, Oriol and the RACER editors give us their take on the surprise packages and the biggest disappointments of the season. 

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Next stop for professional Fun-Haver Vaughn Gittin Jr. and off-road and rock-crawling master Loren Healy are the 56th annual Polaris Crandon World Championships. The duo are bringing their spectacular Ultra4 4400-class Ford Broncos to Wisconsin’s legendary Crandon International Raceway, and they’re giving the RACER Debrief a masterclass on how to chase wins and put on a show. Plus, we look back on a first  Baja 500 for the duo and get the lowdown from drifting legend Gittin on why his RTR Mustangs are tearing up in Formula DRIFT.

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Off-road racing Hall of Famer Johnny Greaves and his multi-title-winning son, C.J., set the scene for short-course off-road racing’s biggest weekend of the year, the 56th annual Polaris Crandon World Championships.  It’s the event everybody wants  to win, and while Pro 4 points leader C.J. is the man to beat in 2025, Johnny’s ready to pull out all the stops to add to his haul of Crandon wins, too. Father and son unlock some of the secrets of the storied Wisconsin track and tell us why Crandon’s cathedral of speed should be on every race fan’s bucket list.

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Forty years ago, World Rally Championship legend Michѐle Mouton made history with her victory in the 1985 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. The trailblazing win was the first for a woman at the “Race to the Clouds” and the first for a non-American driver. In 2025, Michѐle will be inducted in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb Hall of Fame. But before heading to Colorado, she took time out to talk with RACER Debrief to talk about that ’85 win, her WRC successes, and how she’s helping aspiring women racers to build on her achievements. For the ultimate Pikes Peak experience, subscribe to RACER magazine and RACER+ at offers.racer.com/bundle

In a storied career, Romain Dumas is a two-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, WEC champ and multiple ALMS title-winner. But right now, the Frenchman’s focus is on a sixth Pike Peak International Hill Climb victory. Romain joined the RACER Debrief to talk about his all-electric Ford Super Mustang Mach-E, the unique challenge of the Race to the Clouds, and what his perfect racing year would be.

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When you think of the history and the legends of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, you think of the Unser family. Three generations of Unsers have earned 26 overall wins at The Race to the Clouds, and now a fourth-generation Unser, Loni, is looking to make her mark on the Colorado mountain, too. As she gets ready to ascend the 14,110ft peak for a fourth time, June 22, Loni joins the RACER Debrief to talk about her journey to racing at Pikes Peak, her 2025 program with BBI, Mobil 1 and Porsche, and the challenge of taking on one of motorsports’ most memorable and unique events.     

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GT World Challenge America powered by AWS features several excellent Pro-Am pairings, including Regulator Racing’s Jeff Burton and Philip Ellis. The pair sat down with RACER editor-in-chief Laurence Foster to discuss how they came together, how they work strategy to maximize potential, and what their mindset is on any given race weekend.

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Are we in the platinum age of IMSA sportscar racing?

RACER's Editor-in-chief, Laurence Foster sat down with John Doonan, IMSA President right before the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. Doonan talks about growing up a sportscar racing fan, being a racer at heart and the importance of bringing that vision and mentality to IMSA. 

- Valkyrie

- Hypercar vs LMDH/GTP regulations

- Torque sensors

- Importance of the North American market for OEMs

- 2026 schedule release

- GTD Pro and customer racing

- The role of single make series

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Meyer Shank Racing founder Michael Shank has seen his team make a sparkling start to the NTT IndyCar Series season, with Felix Rosenqvist currently fourth in the rankings, while in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the MSR Acuras offered the strongest opposition to the Porsche Penske Motorsport freight train at both Daytona and Sebring. Ahead of the team’s return to the site of its first IndyCar victory with Helio Castroneves in the 2021 Indy 500, and the meat of the IMSA season, Shank tells RACER Debrief about the season so far, and his aspirations for the remainder of the year and beyond.

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