March is Women’s History Month

And while there are countless women who deserve to be named, celebrated, and remembered - this one is for Jessie Combs.

If you’ve spent any time around engines, fabrication, racing, welding, or the kind of spaces where grit is currency, you know her name.

Jessie wasn’t just “the fastest woman on four wheels.”

She was a fabricator.A metal shaper.A welder.A builder.A TV personality who never let the cameras define her.An engineer in a fire suit.

She made speed look fearless, but the real power of Jessie Combs wasn’t the records she broke.

It was the space she broke open.

She showed young girls that you could love torque and TIG welding. That you could be technical and feminine. That you could command respect in rooms that weren’t built with you in mind.

And she did it without shrinking.

In industries like ours, manufacturing, motorsports, skilled trades, visibility matters. For so long, women were present but not seen. Working but not recognized. Skilled but questioned.

Jessie changed that narrative.

Not because she asked for permission.

But because she showed up fully capable, fully prepared, fully unapologetic.

When she tragically passed in 2019 while attempting to break her own land speed record, the world mourned. But what she left behind is bigger than loss.

She left a blueprint.

Courage looks like preparation meeting opportunity.Confidence looks like competence.And representation saves time for the women who come next.

That legacy lives on through The Jessi Combs Foundation.

The foundation exists to educate, inspire, and empower the next generation of female trailblazers, especially in STEM, skilled trades, and motorsports. Through scholarships, mentorship, and hands-on opportunities, it invests directly into girls and women who want to build, race, engineer, and create.

It’s not symbolic support.It’s tangible access.

And that matters.

Because for every woman currently in the shop, on the jobsite, in the pit crew, in the welding booth, there’s a younger version watching. Wondering if she belongs there too.

Women’s History Month isn’t just about looking back.

It’s about deciding what kind of history we’re building right now.

Jessie Combs proved that records are meant to be chased - and ceilings are meant to be shattered.

So this March, let’s honor her the right way.

By mentoring someone.By speaking up in rooms where women aren’t present.By funding foundations that create access.By reminding the next generation that they don’t have to slow down to be taken seriously.

Speed was her language.

Impact is her legacy.

And we’re still building on it.