Jessi Combs’ Land Speed Record Attempt To Be Submitted To Guinness

Jessi Combs tragically died last month while trying to set a new land speed record for a female driver, and it has been revealed that her attempt will be submitted to the Guinness World Records.

Autoblog reports that prior to the crash that claimed her life on a dry lake bed in Oregon, the 39-year-old racer and TV host completed two runs in the North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger.

During the first run she reached a top speed of 515.346 mph (829.368 km/h) and in the second she hit 548.432 mph (882.615 km/h), for a two-way average of 531.889 (855.992 km/h). This is the figure will be submitted to the Guinness. The record is currently held by Kitty O’Neil, who set a 512.7 mph (825.11 km/h) average in 1976.

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Combs had held the title of ‘fastest woman on four wheels’ when she hit a top speed of 398 mph (640 km/h) in the North American Eagle Supersonic Speed Challenger back in 2013. She also piloted the car through to a top speed of 483.227 mph (787.334 km/h) during a shakedown run in October 2018, but it wasn’t made official due to mechanical issues.

The announcement that Combs’ final runs will be submitted to Guinness was made at a special event held in her honor in the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. At the event, the creation of the Jessi Combs Foundation was also announced “to educate, empower and inspire the next generation of female trailblazers and stereotype-breakers.”

“Jessi’s most notable dream was to become the fastest woman on Earth, a dream she had been chasing since 2012,” Combs’ family said in a statement following her death. “Combs was one of the rare dreamers with the bravery to turn those possibilities into reality, and she left this earth driving faster than any other woman in history.”

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