Jessi Combs’ 531.889-mph common velocity to be submitted to Guinness

The speeds achieved by daredevil and all-around bad-ass Jessi Combs main as much as the accident that took her life on Aug. 27 will probably be submitted to Guinness for world-record consideration, it was introduced Saturday. 

Combs died whereas trying to set the document for quickest girl on Earth. She accomplished two runs: one at 515.346 mph and one at 548.432 mph. The common of the 2, 531.889 mph, will probably be submitted for consideration, Autoblog reported on Saturday. If licensed, it should prime the document at the moment held by Kitty O’Neil. O’Neil’s 512.7-mph mark has remained unbeaten since 1976.

Jessi Combs

The announcement got here through the dedication of a brief exhibit in Combs’ honor on the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. All proceeds from the “Jessi Combs: Life at Full Velocity” exhibit will profit The Jessi Combs Basis, which is a brand new group established by Combs’ household and mates. It’s devoted to educating, inspiring, and empowering future stereotype-breaking ladies like Combs.

Jessi Combs

The exhibit, which runs by means of Sept. 25, consists of gadgets from Combs’ workshop and studio. Amongst them are numerous motorbike and auto racing helmets, notebooks, welding jackets, and racing trophies. In a press release following her loss of life, Combs’ household stated her “most notable dream was to change into the quickest girl on Earth.”

Whereas Combs was broadly identified for showing on TV reveals reminiscent of “Mythbusters,” “All Ladies Storage,” and “Overhaulin’,” she additionally competed in sanctioned motorsports occasions, together with the Baja 1000 and King of Hammers. Her first-place end on the latter earned her the nickname, “Queen of Hammers.”

The precise reason for Combs’ crash stays a thriller. The staff tried to get better on-board computer systems from the stays of the North American Eagle Supersonic Velocity Challenger, the jet-powered automotive by which Combs had made a number of document makes an attempt going again to 2013.