Guinness World Records posthumously awards
Jessi Combs land speed mark after fatal attempt
Fox News,
by
Gary Gastelu
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
6/28/2020 4:20:34 AM
Guinness World Records has posthumously awarded Jessi Combs the fastest land speed mark by a woman following her death during an attempt to break it last year.
The automotive TV personality was driving the jet-powered North American Eagle across Oregon’s Alvord Desert on Aug. 27, 2019, when the vehicle hit a rock and broke a wheel at 550 mph, causing it to lose control and burst into flames as it crashed. Combs had just completed the second of two runs in opposite directions required for the official record, which Guinness has verified at 522.783 mph.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Aud 6/28/2020 7:37:53 AM (No. 459679)
Could a Darwin Award be more fitting?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 6/28/2020 7:44:52 AM (No. 459683)
When Chip Foose's Overhaulin' first debuted, they had Jessi as part of the "A" team, tearing down and rebuilding lucky guys old cars. I never knew she was a driver until I read she died. She was a tomboy and knew her away around a garage. We need more girls like Jessi! Parents, get your daughters to watch All GIrl Garage, Overhaulin', and Iron Resurrection, and show them being a mechanic is fun!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/28/2020 8:00:55 AM (No. 459698)
Shouldn't it be a requirement to, you know, stay alive in order for it to be a "world record"? Otherwise, you'd have idiots going 1,000 miles an hour and disintegrating after crossing the finish line just to get the record. Pretty stupid.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 6/28/2020 8:37:29 AM (No. 459747)
Nobody checked the track for rocks?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/28/2020 9:53:37 AM (No. 459807)
Exactly, #1.
A few years ago I visited Zion National Park in Utah and watched one of those huge IMAX movies about a woman rock climber who used just her fingers and feet with no safety lines or tools. The footage was terrifying, showing her dangling from outcrops with only one hand and the hundreds of feet of drop beneath her. The movie made her look heroic. Then, at the end, there was a small blurb stating that the movie was dedicated to her after she died from falling. Heroic to Darwin Award winner in one sentence.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/28/2020 10:16:47 AM (No. 459830)
"fastest land speed mark by a woman"
I find these recitations of female "accomplishments" of things already done by males, that could be done by a paraplegic, to be tedious and unimpressive.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/28/2020 10:24:44 AM (No. 459836)
WOW! A few callous remarks here. Darwin Award? I suppose, for example, any astronaut lost in a Shuttle explosion is equally honored with one.
Reportedly, days before her death, Combs posted: "It may seem a little crazy to walk directly into the line of fire… those who are willing, are those who achieve great things. People say I’m crazy. I say thank you ;) "
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/28/2020 10:47:11 AM (No. 459854)
Shouldn't there be an asterisk next to her "record"?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GO3 6/28/2020 11:09:30 AM (No. 459880)
I admired Jessi for the all around automotive expert she was and her desire to be the best at a dangerous sport. I admired Niki Lauda, too. I saw him drive in a tier 2 race a long time ago. He was a perfectionist and would walk every foot of the track prior to qualification runs to get a feel of every curve, incline and danger area. I imagine walking the desert course for a 500+ mile run would be impractical - I don't know if a crew does it. As #7 says, would we give a Darwin Award to the crew of the Challenger?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 6/28/2020 11:18:29 AM (No. 459889)
Well she earned the record. The accident came after completing the second speed run.
A shame to die in an accident like that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/28/2020 11:26:54 AM (No. 459895)
I agree with the classification of free climbers as nut cases, they eschew ALL safety equipment, seemingly wanting to die in their climbs, and many do.
But that is VERY unfair to any sort of racing driver who has all the possible safety equipment installed - roll cage, automatic fire extinguishers, rupture resistant fuel cells, helmet, fireproof suit, and more. Clearly a dramatically different mindset, it is not a legitimate comparison with free climbers.
Yes, driving very fast is dangerous, but they had mitigated the dangers with all available technology, unlike the free climbers who choose to do NOTHING at all to mitigate the danger, seeming to this old rock climber to be suicidal. I have driven racing cars at very high speeds, and climbed cliffs with 1,000 ft drops below me. But I never would consider the rock climbing without a rope, or the race driving without a helmet and fire suit.
Huge difference.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/28/2020 1:14:08 PM (No. 460040)
I thought drivers are required to sign the witnessed logbook after the new record was accomplished? How was that done if she died?
What do you want to bet that future females will be scorned if they attempt to break this record as leftists elevate Jessi to "sainthood" status joining Amelia Err-heart?
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