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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!
Update frequency:
every 33 days
Average audio length:
83 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
17 episodes
since Feb. 16, 2025
episodic
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In our first episode back from our own summer break, we sit down with our first pro driver on the podcast, Charlie Kimball!
Charlie is well known to American racing fans but his roots in racing go deep, as you'll hear! He was the first IndyCar driver to race w…
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On this episode, Jamey and Jessica sit down with Dr. Wei-Shen Chin and Austin Self of Chin Motorsports who run the popular Chin Track Days HPDE events all over the country.
Learn more about them at Chin Track Days.
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Our second episode of 2026 is an exciting one and it's been a long time in the making. Jessica and I interview Chris Mullen, one of the three FIA starters, the team who actually push the buttons to start the F1 races! In this episode, however, you'll learn about all the o…
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We are back for a second year of the podcast! Our thanks to the listeners who have made our first year a success! We have some great episodes coming up, so make sure you're subscribed.
Many marshals in the US who have worked Formula One and IndyCar events will know our guest i…
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We end 2025 with a bang! Retiring ACCUS President George Silbermann joins us to discuss his storied career in motorsports, the role of ACCUS and some of the inner workings of the FIA and other upper echelons of motorsport throughout the world. Also some history bombs thrown in for …
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In this episode, you'll hear from some of the marshals that worked the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2025. We traveled about the Egyptian Ballroom asking marshals of just about every specialty to introduce themselves and tell us their story of how they got started and perhaps a favo…
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In this episode, Jamey and Jessica visit with Adam Gavalla, the Chief of Scrutineering at FIA events in the US. He goes into what, exactly, the scrutineers do and talks about what it takes to become one.
We also recap our fall events thus far: Jessica talks about WEC, Jamey discus…
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Just in time for the F1 weekend at COTA, we sat down to interview Nadja Pollard and Toni Buhrke, the Chiefs of Pit, Paddock and Grid (PPG) for all the FIA events in the US to discuss what PPG is, what they look for when recruiting to their prized team and then they share stories ab…
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In this episode, we sit down with Max Fumagalli and John Bennie, two very experienced UK marshals who frequently come and share their talents with us here in the US. We discuss how marshaling programs in the UK are structured and it provides great perspective on how we do things in…
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In this episode, we sit down with Sydney Davis Yagel, one of the important people that make the motorsports events we all enjoy possible. You've probably seen her name--on an SCCA email to new members or the myriad of communications that go out prior to a major event--but Sydn…
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