RIP - JESSI COMBS: 1983-2019

[Desperado]

Watched her for a long time on TV.
Jessi Combs -- driver, builder, welder, television personality
and #fastestwomanonfourwheels -- died yesterday in an accident while driving a jet-powered car in the Alvord Desert in Oregon. Combs was 36.
Jessi Combs: 1983-2019

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Cool lady. Died doing what she loved.

 

[MarcATL]

Cool lady. Died doing what she loved.

The circumstances of her untimely demise reminds me of this guy's...

May she rest in peace.

 

[whitehall]

Media hype convinced her that she was "thefastestwomanonfourwheels" and she died trying to beat the record.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

Live hard, drive fast, die young.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Yep, this was a big surprise, although she definitely took a lot of risks.

 

[Dick Foster]

Watched her for a long time on TV.
Jessi Combs -- driver, builder, welder, television personality
and #fastestwomanonfourwheels -- died yesterday in an accident while driving a jet-powered car in the Alvord Desert in Oregon. Combs was 36.
Jessi Combs: 1983-2019

I wonderd how she died so young.

 

[Anathema]

My sympathies to her family and friends. To her personally I would say... Probably wouldn’t have happened in the kitchen making dinner or the living room vacuuming the carpet.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

Speed kills.

 

[my2¢]

I hadn't followed this sport since Art Arfons was setting land speed records at Bonneville Salt Flats in his Green Monster back in '64-'65. Hadn't heard of Jessi Combs, sad to learn of her trough her death. My condolences to her family, friends and fans.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Media hype convinced her that she was "thefastestwomanonfourwheels" and she died trying to beat the record.

No, actually, she was.

 

[Jarlaxle]

My sympathies to her family and friends. To her personally I would say... Probably wouldn’t have happened in the kitchen making dinner or the living room vacuuming the carpet.

So what? Shirley Muldowney and Shirley Shahan are laughing at you.

Muldowney:

Shahan: