Jessi Combs died after crashing a jet-powered high-speed race car at the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon while attempting to beat her four-wheel land speed record.
I’ve intentionally avoided reading anything specific about it because it is genuinely tragic, but I assume with rocket powered land-speed-record-setting cars, if you crash, you turn into physics long before you come to a stop
Jessi Combs died after crashing a jet-powered high-speed race car at the Alvord Desert in southeastern Oregon while attempting to beat her four-wheel land speed record.
That’s the ultimate street cred.
She died doing what she loved: going really fucking fast
Actually I think it was the stopping really fast that did her in.
I’ve intentionally avoided reading anything specific about it because it is genuinely tragic, but I assume with rocket powered land-speed-record-setting cars, if you crash, you turn into physics long before you come to a stop
I don’t think it was overly tragic.
People breaking those types of records do whatever they can to minimize the risks but they know what they are getting into.
The Expanse comes to mind
Lake bed cred