TV star Jessi Combs dead at 36 after daring jet car accident

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Jessi Combs, a well-known racer and television star, died Tuesday attempting to break her own land-speed record in Oregon. She was 36.

"It is with extreme grief, and in celebration of her life that her family and close friends share that race car driver, and TV personality Jessi Combs, passed away in a fatal crash, as she pursued setting a land speed record in the North American Eagle on August, 27th 2019 on a dry lake bed in Oregon," a spokesperson for Combs family tells Yahoo Entertainment. "The details of the crash have not been released at this time."

I loved her. She was cute, smart and fearless.

 

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That's very sad. I remember her from Mythbusters back in the day.

In other tragic motorsports news, French driver Antoine Hubert, 22, died in a bad crash at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit during a Formula 2 race.
F2 driver Hubert killed in crash at Spa-Francorchamps circuit