Dirt track racing legend Scott Bloomquist, 60, killed in Tennessee plane crash #dirt

Scott Bloomquist, a Dirt Late Model racing legend and Hall of Famer, has tragically died in a plane crash near his home in Tennessee, according to multiple reports. He was 60 years old. Local authorities confirmed to The Rogersville Review that Bloomquist died in a small plane crash near his home in Mooresburg early Friday morning. "Bloomquist's mother Georgette just called me and wanted me to announce that he lost his life this morning. At 7:15 EST this morning, Scott was flying his antique plane and was in an accident on the Bloomquist family farm. The local fire department and police are still on scene." He was reportedly flying a small two-seater aircraft. Bloomquist rose to fame in the 1980s, but his career took off in the 1990s. Notably, he won the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Championship in 2009, 2010 and 2016 and was inducted into the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame as a member of its second class in 2002.