- American awarded land-speed record she died trying to break
- Jessi Combs: her passion for speed rewrote the record books
The American race car driver Jessi Combs has posthumously been awarded the fastest land speed record for a woman by Guinness World Records, a feat she died trying to achieve last year.
The South Dakota native, a popular TV personality and host of the Motor Trend series All Girls Garage, was killed in an August 2019 crash after reaching a speed of 522.783mph (841.338kph) in a jet-powered car on the Alvord Desert, a dry lake bed in south-eastern Oregon. She was 39.
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