Mr. O’Malley’s presentation will focus on how the dream of racing at the Glen was kept alive after the circuit shut down, and how Corning Enterprises managed to resurrect the circuit. Big challenges were faced in returning world class motorsports to the Glen, while banishing the ghosts of the infamous “bog” and rock concert from the mid-seventies.
Bio
J.J. O’Malley has been covering motorsports in many capacities since 1973. After graduating from King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, he was News Editor for Chris Economaki’s National Speed Sport News in 1977. He then began a six-year stint as assistant sports editor for the Pocono Record in Stroudsburg, Pa. Since 1984, it’s been exclusively motorsports for O’Malley. He was media director for Watkins Glen International when the circuit reopened, and then joined Homestead-Miami Speedway as public relations director in 1998. O’Malley moved to ISC headquarters in 2001 as news editor for ISC Publications, and was involved with Grand-Am Road Racing since its debut in 2000. He joined the sanctioning body full time in 2008 as manager of communications, and remained through the merger of Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series as manager of communications for IMSA until 2016.
Currently a Sunday Group Management content contributor, O’Malley has written 13 books on racing, including Daytona 24 Hours: the Definitive History of America’s Great Endurance Race, Volumes 1 and 2. O’Malley is an honorary member of the prestigious Road Racing Drivers Club.
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This episode is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family – and was recorded in front of a live studio audience. And has been Edited, Remastered and Produced in partnership with the Motoring Podcast Network.
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