The Brief
- The 6th annual Christmas Tree Drag Race at Bradenton Park honored the late Greg Biffle, a retired NASCAR driver.
- He and his family died in a plane crash as they were on their way to Sarasota.
BRADENTON, Fla. – The 6th annual Christmas Tree Drag Race at Bradenton Park honored the late Greg Biffle, a retired NASCAR driver.
“It makes me sick. It’s awful,” said Donna Marie Angello, a racing fan. “God bless him and his family.” Angello was a racer herself.
“It goes through your bones, like the cold weather, almost, okay?” Angello said. “It’s losing family, it’s going through you, especially when you have this in your blood.”
Garrett Mitchell, known as Cletus McFarland online, owns the drag strip and a racetrack called the Freedom Factory.…