{"id":370506,"date":"2025-12-26T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370506\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:14:06","slug":"gregg-biffle-went-from-local-hellraiser-to-nascar-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370506\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregg Biffle went from local \u2018hellraiser\u2019 to NASCAR champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He didn\u2019t win a race in 1998, but he earned four pole positions and finished eighth in the season standings, earning him the Rookie of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>The victories came in 1999 \u2014 nine of them \u2014 as he finished second in the season points standings. In 2000, Biffle won the Truck Series title, beating out Roush teammate Kurt Busch.<\/p>\n<p>Biffle joined the NASCAR Busch Series in 2001, won five races and was the Rookie of the Year. The following season, he won four races and had 20 top-five finishes out 34 races, leading to Busch Series title.<\/p>\n<p>Biffle made his move to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2003, where he would post 19 victories over the next 14 seasons. He posted three wins at Homestead-Miami Speedway and four at Michigan International Speedway, including his final Cup win in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Biffle\u2019s final year at full-time Cup racer was in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Biffle married Nicole Lunders in 2007, and they had a daughter, Emma, in 2011. The couple divorced in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He didn\u2019t win a race in 1998, but he earned four pole positions and finished eighth in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-370506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}