Welcome to Trackside! This is a podcast dedicated to and inspired by motorsports marshals all over the world.
You've seen them on TV: those folks in orange jumpsuits handling crashed cars or waving flags right next to the speeding cars. Are you one of these? Or do you want to be? If so, you're in the right place! Your hosts, Jamey Osborne and Jessica Althoff, are experienced race marshals who have worked many different specialties and different styles of event. They will take you behind the scenes of motorsports, including event preparation and recruitment of marshals. If you're aspiring to be a race marshal, they have plenty of advice for you too!
Race marshals are part of an amazing worldwide community and we welcome you into it. Join us! Trackside!
Jamey is the Chief Starter at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas and has been the Chief of Start at all of the Formula One Grands Prix in the United States since 2021. At COTA, he's worked in Track Operations since 2017 working as a marshal, starter, pit lane, race control communicator and EV dispatcher. He has worked in radio for far too long and has been a podcaster since 2009.
Jessica has been a member of the Track Operations department at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas since 2018 and works in a variety of roles, such as Race Control, Emergency Dispatch, Pit Lane, Start, and F&C. Before entering the motorsports industry, she worked in event production, predominantly at music festivals such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and South By Southwest.