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Nov 08

In Memoriam: Jessi Combs – a tribute feature article

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The Woman Who Changed the Racing Game

Jessi Combs had shown a strong inclination for cars, machines and racing from a tender age. She also had a knack for playing around with metal pieces and creating new stuffs with them. She showed special interest in creating things with metal pieces, photography, and leather craft.

Jessi Combs first love was fast cars. Jessi was a trained racer as well and excelled in performance racing, stunt driving, evasive driving, and drifting. As a professional driver, Jessi raced in a wide range of events and enjoyed many successes.

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Nov 05

Cause determined in Jessi Combs’ fatal speed record crash

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by Zac Palmer from https://www.msn.com

Occurred at speeds near 550 mph.

Jessi Combs’ fatal high-speed crash was caused by “a mechanical failure of the front wheel, most likely caused from striking an object on the desert,” according to the Harney County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon. This information comes to us two months after Combs’ tragic accident on the dry lake bed of the Alvord Desert. Combs was 39 years old.

The investigation concluded that the front wheel failure “led to the front wheel assembly collapsing.” The sheriff’s department says this happened at speeds approaching 550 mph. Both the Harney County Sheriff’s Office and the North American Eagle Race Team collected evidence from the scene to come to this conclusion.

Her cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head, which happened before the vehicle was engulfed in flames. No other official information regarding the crash was released.

Combs was an extremely well-known racer, fabricator and a longtime host of Autoblog’s “The List” video series, and it is with heavy hearts that we convey this news to you today. The sheriff’s office concluded its release by passing on “its condolences to the family of Jessi Combs and the North American Eagle Race Team.”

Aug 29

Passing of Jessi Combs

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It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Jessi Combs. An industry icon, Jessi was an amazing soul.

If you want to learn more about Jessi and her life, simply search her name on the Internet. And prepare to be amazed!

I’ve told this story countless times over the years – during the photo shoot for David’s piece featuring her, she was by far the toughest person there. It was late December here in the Denver area and it was COLD. She never complained once…while the rest of us big tough guys were doing anything we could to stay warm.

Her smile and laughter brightened our days when she visited us in Daytona and Sturgis the past few years.

Jessi, you will be missed…gone too soon.

— Artist David Uhl