As far away as you can get from the literal and spiritual home of stock-car racing, Greg Biffle cut his racing teeth in the Pacific Northwest. This weekend, one of his old bullring playgrounds is honoring the late NASCAR star.
The inaugural 150-mile Greg Biffle Memorial is scheduled for Saturday night at Tri-City Raceway in Washington State, east of Biffle’s Vancouver hometown. Officially, it’s the NAPA AutoCare 150 Greg Biffle Memorial.
The unique Tri-City layout is a half-mile tri-oval, located in West Richland. The 150-mile Saturday night race (8 p.m. Eastern on FloRacing TV) is part of the ARCA West Series.
Biffle, who died at 55 in a plane crash last December, grew up racing throughout the Pacific Northwest, and in the ’90s had a pair of top-fives in three starts at Tri-City, racing in NASCAR’s Northwest Series.
Greg Biffle raced early and late at Tri-City Raceway
Several years after retiring from full-time Cup Series racing, Biffle returned to Tri-City in 2024 and 2025, finishing ninth and third in a pair of ARCA West races. It was a full-circle moment for Biffle. His earlier racing at Tri-City came during a time when he was “discovered” while also racing the old Winter Heat Series in Arizona.
He went on to a NASCAR career that included 19 Cup wins as well as 20 wins and a championship in what’s now called the O’Reilly Series.
“We got to see him start as a raw rookie. He was very determined. And he made it,” Tri-City promoter Greg Walden said in a press release. “He was a talent. Then 30 years later, he comes back to race. He was such a humanitarian, because we hadn’t been in touch with him for 30 years.”
— Email Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Greg Biffle remembered by one of his old Washington tracks with Saturday race
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