Greg Biffle secretly raced in the NASCAR Cup Series while having a broken arm during his rookie season, it has been revealed.

Fellow NASCAR great Jeff Burton told the story to the audience at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Friday during a memorial for the seven victims of that tragic plane crash on December 18.

Sadly, Greg Biffle, his wife Cristina, daughter Emma, and son Ryder were among those to lose their lives on that horrible day.

The NASCAR community has mourned their loss ever since, with some incredible stories emerging about Biffle ever since, that show just what a great human being and character he was.

Greg Biffle broken arm story

Burton is the latest to do so. It’s an incredible story, and one we felt was worthy of sharing every word. Enjoy.

“This one’s going to get a few people in trouble,” Burton quipped. “Patrick Rogers, who’s here today, was Greg’s PR guy when Greg first started racing for Roush, and he was still working with Greg when Greg was a rookie in the Cup Series.

“One night, Patrick was at home. Innocently at home. Gets a call from Greg. Greg's broken his arm and there's a race coming up. Greg broke his arm ‘by climbing in the motorhome’, which just happened to be out in sand dunes where there are sand rails and thousand-horsepower cars and four-wheelers, but the story was he broke it getting in the motorhome.

“He had concocted a plan, and he needed Patrick to play along with this. He's not going to tell anybody about his broken arm because when you're a rookie, you can't go out and have fun and break your arm and show up at the racetrack. That's a good way to lose your job, so Greg is going to hide this from the entire world.”

Winter coat in 118 degree heat

Burton’s story continued: “Just so happened to be the race is in Fontana. California. And for those of you that have been in Fontana, California, at certain times of the year, it's hot. It's really hot.

“So Greg's normally early at the track, wants to get with his team, hang out, do his stuff. Not this week. Greg shows up as late as possible. Gets to the car. And he's got a winter coat on. In Fontana, California, in the middle of the heat, it's like 118 [degrees] out there. He's got a winter coat on him because he's hiding the cast, right? He’s got to hide it.

“So he shows up late to practice. Practice is over. He gets out of the car and leaves. He went so far as to rent a motor home to have a place to hide throughout the week. He had to stay completely away from everybody. I want Jack Roush to know I had nothing to do with any of this.”

“So Greg, his team eventually catches on, and as good teams do, they worked along with Greg - we're going to keep this a secret, right? We're gonna not let anybody know it. That's what teammates do. That's what his team do. None of the other drivers do.

Biffle makes the race

“So he's avoiding everybody, he's avoiding the media, he's avoiding everybody, race starts, everything is going pretty decent, until there's an early restart, Greg spins out on the restart. Imagine that driving with one arm, you know, he spun out. He lost a couple laps, but he went on, and he completed the race.

“He finished one lap down in 18th. And a bit of humility for me, I finished 19th without a broken arm. Seven races later. Seven races later Greg Biffle went on to win his first Cup race at Daytona.

“That's Greg. We have a problem, we're going to deal with it, we're going to figure it out.”