{"id":382412,"date":"2026-01-01T23:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382412\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:35:16","slug":"public-memorial-date-and-place-set-for-nascar-driver-greg-biffle-other-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382412\/","title":{"rendered":"Public memorial date and place set for NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, other victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

A date has been set for a memorial service to honor Greg Biffle and the six other victims who died in a plane crash earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The memorial will be held at Bojangles Coliseum on Friday, January 16. The event is open to the public and is expected to be live-streamed, according to a NASCAR spokesperson. A time has not been made public.<\/p>\n

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Biffle, his wife, their two children and three others perished during a plane crash at the Statesville Regional Airport on Dec. 18. He was 55. The plane was owned by Biffle. The cause of the crash has not been revealed.<\/p>\n

Biffle, an experienced pilot, took the lead on several rescue missions during Hurricane Helene \u2014 providing supplies to communities in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you, the feeling you get when you win a race, you can only ask drivers, right? Because the feeling you get when you win that race, that\u2019s the feeling you get when you\u2019re able to help people in need,\u201d Biffle told NASCAR last Octobe<\/a>r during a conversation about his Helene recovery efforts.<\/p>\n

Days after his death, fans of Biffle\u2019s NASCAR legacy and admirers of his work during Hurricane Helene came to pay their respects at his marker<\/a> on the North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame in downtown Moorseville. Bouquets of flowers surrounded the portrait on his marker which was granted to him earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A date has been set for a memorial service to honor Greg Biffle and the six other victims…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,64735,34710,634,82,153450],"class_list":["post-382412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-greg-biffle","tag-hurricane-helene","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-statesville-regional-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382412","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=382412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}