“Race Car Legend Scott Bloomquist Dies in Plane Crash Near Mooresburg Home: Details and Career Highlights”
Officials have confirmed that race car driver Scott Bloomquist has died in a small aircraft crash near his domestic within the Mooresburg network of Hawkins County.
Sheriff Ronnie Lawson instructed the Review that Bloomquist, who owned a small personal airstrip at his domestic in Mooresburg, apparently crashed right into a barn on his assets.
Bloomquist, one of the maximum a hit dust track stock automobile racers of all time, became alone within the plane. The coroner turned into en direction.
The plane crash turned into reported at 7:50 a.M. On Friday at Bloomquist’s home at 209 Brooks Road in Mooresburg.
Multiple hearth and rescue companies had been dispatched to the scene following reviews of hearth and black smoke. Bloomquist became flying a small -seat Piper Cub N21811, and his death changed into showed on the scene.
Lawson stated that their investigators, together with federal aviation regulators and kingdom officials, are their route.
The 60-year-antique Bloomquist was arguably one of the most successful dust stock vehicle racers in history.
**An Impressive Racing Career**
Bloomquist’s first race came about in 1980 at the Corona Raceway in Corona, California.He won numerous races and claimed the track championship in 1982.
In 1983, he moved to Mooresburg to work on his father’s farm and started competing in main handbag races 100 miles from domestic. During the Nineteen Eighties, he became a local megastar at Kingsport Speedway and bowled over the racing world by way of triumphing the celebrated Eldora Speedway’s World 100 in 1988. He gained the race once more in 1990.
– 2004 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Champion
– 2009, 2010, 2016 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Champion
– “Champion of the Hav-A-Tampa Dirt Late Model Series in the years 1994, 1995, 1998, and 2000.”
– 1995, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2018 Dirt Late Model Dream Winner
– 1988, 1990, 2001, 2014 World 100 Winner
– 1992, 1994, 1996, 2014 Blue-Gray one hundred Winner