Former NASCAR Cup Series driver Greg Biffle and his family died in a plane crash at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Thursday.
All seven occupants of the plane were killed in the crash, which happened shortly after 10 a.m. ET. The plane, registered to Biffle’s GB Aviation LLC, took off from Statesville for Sarasota/Bradenton International, but turned around and attempted to land back at Statesville when it crashed.
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Biffle’s wife Cristina, his daughter Emma, 14, and Greg and Cristina’s son Ryder, 5, were on board along with Dennis and Jack Dutton and Craig Wadsworth, according to a statement from their families.
Biffle, 55, competed in over 500 Cup Series races and scored 19 wins with the team now known as Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing. He won championships in both NASCAR’s third-tier Truck and second-tier Xfinity Series and had a NASCAR career that spanned over two decades. He also spent much of his time in the fall of 2024 helping victims of Hurricane Helene in rural North Carolina after the storm’s flooding rains took out infrastructure in that part of the state.
As news of the crash emerged on Thursday, many in and around the racing community took to social media to share their sadness.
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