Remembering Long-Time NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle

The 19-time NASCAR Cup Series winner was killed in a private jet crash on Thursday.

Greg Biffle, a 19-time NASCAR Cup Series race winner and humanitarian, died in a plane crash in North Carolina on Thursday morning. He was 55.

A statement shared by families of the victims confirms that Biffle, his wife Cristina, his daughter Emma, and his son Ryder were among seven killed in the crash. Three others, Dennis Dutton, Jack Dutton, and Craig Wadsworth, also died.

The statement, attributed to the Biffle, Grossu, Dutton, and Lunders families, adds that "Greg and Cristina were devoted parents and active philanthropists whose lives centered around their young son Ryder and Greg's daughter Emma... Each of them meant everything to us, and their absence leaves an immeasurable void in our lives."

Biffle's 25-year NASCAR career was highlighted mostly by his years at Roush-Fenway Racing, where he won 19 Cup Series races. Most of those seasons were spent in a No. 16 Ford Cup car, sponsored in most races by 3M. He finished in the top five in three different years of Cup Series racing, coming just 35 points of a championship during the 2005 season …

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