Jessica Combs was an American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator.
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Jessi Combs set a women’s land speed class record in 2013 and broke her own record in 2016.
Jessi Combs was known as “the fastest woman on four wheels”.
Jessi Combs co-hosted the Spike TV show Xtreme 4×4 for more than 90 episodes from 2005 to 2009.
Other television showsJessi Combs appeared on included Overhaulin’, Mythbusters, The List: 1001 Car Things To Do Before You Die, All Girls Garage,and Science Channel’s How to Build… Everything in 2016.
Jessi Combs died on August 27, 2019, after crashing a jet-powered car while attempting to break a land speed record as part of the North American Eagle Project on a dry lake bed in the Alvord Desert, Oregon.
The crash was caused by a failure of a front wheel, likely caused by hitting an object in the desert, which caused the front wheel assembly to collapse at a speed nearing 550 mph (890 km/h).
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However, the official cause of death was determined to be “blunt force trauma to the head” occurring prior to the fire that engulfed the race vehicle after the crash.
Jessi Combs’ final run across Oregon’s Alvord Desert on August 27, 2019 reached 522.783 mph (841.338 km/h) before her crash, which broke the existing women’s land speed record of 512.71 mph (825.13 km/h), set in 1976 by Kitty O’Neil at the same location.
Jessi Combs was posthumously awarded the female land-speed world record by Guinness World Records in June 2020.
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