ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — For years, Greg Biffle was known in NASCAR for speed, precision, and the kind of intensity that made competitors think twice before racing him hard.
But in western North Carolina, friends say his legacy was sealed far from the track, in the days after Helene, when helicopters became the only way to reach some mountain communities cut off by flooding and landslides.
At Celebrity Hot Dogs in Asheville, former NASCAR driver Robert Pressley said the racing world has lost a competitor, but the mountains lost something more personal…