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
The Expanse comes to mind
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.
Lake bed cred