Dirt track legend Scott Bloomquist was killed in a plane crash near his home in Mooresburg, Tennessee on Friday morning. The Rogersville Review reported the news shortly after 8:30 a.m., indicating that local authorities confirmed that Bloomquist was “involved in a small aircraft crash.” Bloomquist was 60 years old.
The news was confirmed by Missouri racer and close Bloomquist friend Reid Millard, a funeral director who announced the tragedy in a Facebook post after receiving a call from Bloomquist’s mother Georgie.