Biffle buys part of Oregon dirt track and forms series for Northwest racers
NASCAR driver Greg Biffle says he has become part owner of a dirt track in Oregon and formed a late model series to help budding racers in the Northwest.
The DAA Spec Motor Series will run 22 events on six tracks with a $25,000 season points fund.
The race track Biffle is now part owner of is Sunset Speedway in Banks, Ore. It's a 3/4-mile clay dirt track located outside Portland. Biffle says the track will host 35 events this season, which begins April 10.
Biffle is hardly the first NASCAR star to purchase a dirt track. Tony Stewart owns Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, where he holds a charity late model event each year that attracts several NASCAR regulars.
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