NASCAR Comes Together After Tragedy: Honoring Greg Biffle, Michael Annett & More

Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX

Fox Sports

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.8 • 523 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The NASCAR community comes together after a heartbreaking offseas as Kevin Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, and Mamba Smith reflect on the lives and legacies of several beloved figures across the sport on this episode of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour. The show honors the life and impact of Greg Biffle following the tragic plane crash that claimed him and members of his family, discussing his decorated NASCAR career, his reputation in the garage, and the generosity that defined him off the track. They also address the devastating loss experienced by Denny Hamlin’s family, the passing of former NASCAR driver Michael Annett, and the death of longtime team member Rick Otis Hodges, highlighting the often unseen people who make race weekends possible. Through thoughtful conversation and reflection, the crew examines how moments like these reveal the tight-knit nature of NASCAR and the strength of the racing community in times of loss. 0:00 - Intro 1:21 - Greg Biffle & Family Tragedy 11:05 - Denny Hamlin’s Family Tragedy 15:59 - Loss Of Michael Annett 17:58 - Loss Of Rick Otis Hodges Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	in our sport. I can be jumping over a car at somebody or mad at somebody.
0:05.0	But all those drivers and all those team owners and all those crew members are always going to support what you do when something's wrong.
0:11.0	You're going to find a group of people that are going to support you like you've never seen in basketball or football or baseball.
0:19.0	You're on a race. or football or baseball. Welcome to Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour, presented by NASCAR on Fox.
0:32.6	I'm Kevin Harvick.
0:33.6	She's Kate and Vinci, and he's Momba Smith.
0:36.6	Hey, guys. Welcome in. Welcome in to another season, season three. Hard to believe, right?
0:42.0	Hard to believe that we've already gone through two seasons of this. It went by so fast.
0:46.9	It certainly has. We appreciate all the closers who've been along for the ride.
0:50.3	Make sure you subscribe on YouTube wherever you get your podcast. Follow us, of course, on social
0:54.7	media. So today's show is different than weeks past because today is about remembrance.
1:00.7	We lost a lot of members of our community over the last couple of months since we last had a show.
1:05.2	So we felt it would be best to remember those people for our very first episode of the year
1:10.1	and, you know, shed light on
1:11.6	some of the people who have made this sport so special over the years. And we will have a recap show
1:16.3	tomorrow, but for today, it's going to be about these stories. So I want to start, obviously,
1:21.6	with Greg Biffle and his family, wife, Christina, Emma, Ryder, his children, they were killed in a tragic plane crash
1:29.3	at Statesville Airport in December. This was a horrific, just shocking tragedy that took place.
1:37.1	They recently held his memorial service to pay respects to the Biffel family. Kevin, why don't you start just sharing your memories of Greg?
1:46.4	Yeah, my first memory of Greg was 93, 94, somewhere 95, somewhere right in there.
1:53.5	Greg was always from the Pacific Northwest and ran his late models up there.
1:59.1	I ran, obviously, in the southwest section of the west coast,
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