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Jessi Combs died during the record race in 2019
An American race car driver has posthumously received a woman’s fastest ground speed record, a feat she died trying to accomplish.
Jessi Combs died in an accident after trying to break the ground speed record in the Alvord, Oregon desert on August 27, 2019.
His jet-powered car posted a record speed of 522,783 mph (841,338 km / ph).
Guinness World Records has confirmed that Ms. Combs, 39, was the first person to break the record in over 40 years.
The previous record was set by American specialist Kitty O’Neil, whose airplane-powered three-wheeler reached 512.7 mph in 1976 in the Alvord Desert.
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Ms. Comb’s partner Terry Madden expressed mixed emotions in an Instagram post about the registration confirmation.
Madden wrote that “no record could be worth her not being here.”
“But it was a goal that she really wanted, and as difficult as it is for me to even look at the car without crying. I am very proud of her,” he added. “She woke up that morning with an alarm saying ‘let’s make history’ and we had an absolutely amazing day.”
He and Ms. Combs had a “heart to heart” about the race, which was supposed to be their last attempt on the record, Madden wrote.
“That was the last time he got into that car,” Madden wrote. “It has destroyed me that all I had to do was say we were going to leave and we would have left before that race.”
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Ms. Combs’s car crashed due to “a mechanical failure of the front wheel,” which “was probably caused by hitting an object in the desert,” a police investigation found.
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The Harney County Sheriff’s Office said the wheel failure occurred when the car was moving at a speed close to 550 mph.
Combs’ cause of death was determined to be “blunt force trauma to the head,” he said. The vehicle burst into flames after the accident.
In his Instagram post, Madden argued that Combs had done everything right.
As a highly acclaimed television presenter and professional racing driver, Ms. Combs already had a ground speed record for women in a four-wheeler.
In 2013, she set a new career record of 398 mph, earning her the nickname “the fastest woman on four wheels.” She then broke her own record in 2016.
Throughout her career as a racing driver, Ms. Combs was a passionate supporter of increasing female representation in the sport.
She co-hosted the Spike Xtreme 4×4 television show for four years in the 2000s and appeared on several television shows, including Overhaulin ‘and Mythbusters.
In an Instagram post, shared days before her death, Combs seemed determined to break O’Neil’s ground speed record.
“It may seem a bit crazy to walk straight into the line of fire … those who are willing are those who accomplish great things,” he wrote. “People say I’m crazy. I say thanks;)”.
