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    RevengencerAlfJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:50pm

    Technically it’s correct but I can’t help but nitpick the wording of the headline and initial description a bit.

    It sounds to me like the wheel “failed” because it struck a rock or some other protrusion in the sand. Something it ostensibly wasn’t meant to handle and that wasn’t expected to be there. The wording kind of (I’m sure unintentionally) implies that it just up and failed.

    Headlining it as front wheel failure is kind of like saying that President Lincoln died of cranial trauma.

    Pedantry aside, as morbid as it is I guess it’s a good thing that things happened in the order that they did. My guess/hope is that it would have been rather quick and pre-fire.

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      bison78RevengencerAlf
      11/05/19 8:01pm

      At those speeds, the wheel might fail due to centripetal forces, although I would hope that the wheel was designed with those forces fully accounted for.

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      D. WalkerRevengencerAlf
      11/05/19 8:17pm

      It’s standard to refer to parts “failure” in this context, though.

      Parts fail. There’s no judgement in that, it’s just a way of saying that something either broke or otherwise didn’t do what it was supposed to do.

      Parts can fail for a wide variety of reasons, whether that be due to a design flaw, a manufacturing flaw, or even just regular wear and tear. It doesn’t imply fault.

      Whether the cause of a failure is expected or not, it’s still designated a mechanical failure. If a meteor hits an airliner mid-flight in a freak accident and knocks out an engine, that’s still an engine failure, even though the engine was never expected to handle being struck by a meteor.

      A wheel blowing because of an unexpected rock is still a wheel failure. It’s just the standard way to talk about things in an engineering context.

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    Mustang Crowd Hunter EditionJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:18pm

    I don’t want to know how this happened. All I want to know is if she officially broke the record yet. They submitted it in early September to Guinness and we haven’t received an update on that yet.

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      Benny0407Mustang Crowd Hunter Edition
      11/05/19 6:48pm

      This, this so much. To sit there and point the blame on something, i feel like Jessi wouldn't care about that. She'd care about that record though.

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      Hell-iph-I-Kno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Mustang Crowd Hunter Edition
      11/05/19 6:57pm

      For fucks sake, let the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile rule and NOT jackassed Guinness. If this amazing woman died trying to rate a goddamned entry into that dumbfucking stupid ass shit rag then I’ve lost all respect.  Please realize that to be in the Guinness is to be among circus freaks and mutants. 

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    Meotter96Jason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:28pm

    550mph... I can't fathom how pants crappingly terrifying that is. A badass woman through and through, Ms. Combs was. 

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    SaltyIrishmanJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:23pm

    Godspeed...at least with the failure known and thankfully that it was pre-fire it was hopefully an instantaneous, painless exit from this mortal coil doing something she was clearly passionate about.  

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    Logos11Jason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 8:14pm

    It’s not much, but knowing she died doing something she loved doing is a very small consolation. I mean what the hell else can you say about a tragic accident.

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    CountersteerJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:35pm

    Never realized this thing had 5 wheels. One on the nose, two amidships, and two at the rear on outriggers. Strange...

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    The_DirtbagJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:39pm

    At least she died before the fire....

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    Jerry Wiegert's Hair HelmetJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 6:51pm

    I’m still sad.

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    UltramanJason Torchinsky
    11/05/19 8:29pm

    Lost me at 550mph.

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