Fastest Women On Four Wheels Dies Attempting 500 MPH

[Irongrip400]

I don't get it risk your life to save another I get but at 39 years old for what remember this guy.
 Felix Baumgartner in the record books. Baumgartner became the first person to break the sound barrier in free fall. His dive was from an altitude of 127,852 feet, which at the time also set a new record for highest free-fall parachute jump ...
Most don't remember him that's my point

His record was actually broken, by who I’m not sure. The reason I remember him is because I watched it on Discovery Channel live. It was pretty cool.

[deadz]

The responses here are hilarious.

[Rambone]

Elliot's ghost taking revenge on all strong females.

One of the many side effects of the creatine....

[tommywishbone]

Trying to go 500mph in a car is EXACTLY like high level bodybuilding. The two endeavors are almost identical.

-Absurdity for the point of absurdity.
-Risk your life.
-An 19" arm is awesome, let's make it 20". Good idea! 400 mph is fast. Let's go 500 mph! Good idea.
-Spend money needlessly.
-Very little money for chasing the dream.
-Gives you bragging rights in an empty room.
-Makes for a cool 30 second video clip.
-Even if successful nobody knows your name.

That said, she died a fine death. An honorable death. Sure she's still very dead and her family and friends will weep, but it was her life, not theirs.

I salute you "Go Fast Girl."  HPIP.  Horsepower in peace.

"Go with throttles at full military power."

"Copy that... full military power"

[Bevo]

This is awful for her family.  I seriously doubt anyone that is killed doing something they enjoy wants to have anyone say "at least they died doing something they 'loved'."   I'm relatively certain that she didn't.  But I also understand the background of such a statement.  It's not meant to be sarcastic, but again.  No one wants to die doing something so banal as this.  Or fishing. Or riding a motorcycle,  Or rafting...

Or if your Venom Vince, kielbasa-ing a fat old white dude you met at the Piggly-Wiggly. 

Yep

“She died doing what she loved”

“She’s in a better place now”

 

How about NO, she’s dead, end of story

[Henda]

Stupid thing to die for

[Schmoff]

This is the 52,000 horsepower jet-powered car she was driving when she died.

that's not a car

[tommywishbone]

Not anymore it's not.

[wordy]

I’m guessing she was trying to reverse park at the time.

[SOMEPARTS]

Would hit

At this point it would be more of a smear than a hit.

[hazbin]

going into a car and trying to do 5 seconds in the quarter mile,,,,  now dat to me is crazy.

[Irongrip400]

that's not a car

Exactly what I thought. It’s a plane without wings. I wonder what the actual top speed is for a car with an internal combustion engine?


I’m surprised there’s no videos of the accident out yet.

[Earl1972]

never heard of her and she is probably the only person in the world that cared about that record

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[tommywishbone]

going into a car and trying to do 5 seconds in the quarter mile,,,,  now dat to me is crazy.

LOL! Excellent.   A lesser remembered Arnold quote.

[Obvious Gimmick]

A lot of bottoms in this thread. Seems like a decent way to go. Hell, she got her own thread on Getbig.

[tommywishbone]

A lot of bottoms in this thread. Seems like a decent way to go. Hell, she got her own thread on Getbig.

Yes sir!  One hell of a way to go.  And immortality here on Getbig.

[Palumboism]

[Irongrip400]

Kind of sad all of the foreshadowing. Was this from last season?

[hazbin]

LOL! Excellent.   A lesser remembered Arnold quote.

thanks Tommy, you damn powerhouse.  it was off the top of my head so probably not verbatim

[Rusty Trombone]

Mythbusters girl huh?

[Coach is Back!]

I’m confused. I grew up in a family motor heads and followed (still do to a certain extent) and grew up around drag racing, motocross and desert racing. It was Gary Gabelich that set the original land speed record at Bonneville in I think 1969 or 1970 in the Blue Flame rocket car at 622mph. I also believe he died the same way she did (not at Bonneville). Why are they saying that 500mph is the worlds record?

[ponal]

waste of good pussy 

[Mitch]

I’m confused. I grew up in a family motor heads and followed (still do to a certain extent) and grew up around drag racing, motocross and desert racing. It was Gary Gabelich that set the original land speed record at Bonneville in I think 1969 or 1970 in the Blue Flame rocket car at 622mph. I also believe he died the same way she did (not at Bonneville). Why are they saying that 500mph is the worlds record?

Fastest car crash  

[SuperTed]

I’m confused. I grew up in a family motor heads and followed (still do to a certain extent) and grew up around drag racing, motocross and desert racing. It was Gary Gabelich that set the original land speed record at Bonneville in I think 1969 or 1970 in the Blue Flame rocket car at 622mph. I also believe he died the same way she did (not at Bonneville). Why are they saying that 500mph is the worlds record?

It would have been a record for a female driver. Gabelich died in a motorcycle crash and not while racing.   

[falco]

Wow. RIP.