Petition to NASCAR: Create a Greg Biffle Humanitarian Award
Petition to NASCAR: Create a Greg Biffle Humanitarian Award
The Issue
This is a petition to NASCAR to create an annually awarded Greg Biffle Humanitarian Award. The award as envisioned would honor the late Greg Biffle's humanitarian efforts and would be awarded at each NASCAR awards banquet at season's end. The award would be given to any active or retired driver, crew member, or other industry professional for their humanitarian efforts that year (not limited to disasters, but any community and giving back efforts where the awarded individual was an active participant and coordinator). Each year's recipient would be determined by a voting panel organized by NASCAR.
It should be noted that the NASCAR Foundation does already have the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award, however that award is designated for everyday NASCAR fans and specifically for efforts that positively impact children in their community. This would be a separate award as outlined above.
Read more about Greg Biffle and the background of this issue below.
Greg Biffle was a NASCAR legend. He won Jack Roush's first two NASCAR national series championships, the 2000 Craftsman Truck Series championship and 2002 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series championship. In the top level of the NASCAR Cup Series, Biffle won 19 points races. In 2023, for NASCAR's 75th Season, he was honored as one of NASCAR's 75 greatest drivers.
Biffle tragically passed away on December 18th, 2025 in a plane crash in Statesville, NC. Six others were on board and also sadly passed: Biffle's wife Cristina and their son Ryder, Biffle's child Emma (from his first marriage), Dennis Dutton and his son Jack, and Craig Wadsworth.
Biffle was not only a legend on the race track, but was an upstanding human being with a humanitarian heart. In 2024, Hurricane Helene brought record-level flooding to Western North Carolina, leaving many stranded and even more impacted. Greg Biffle without hesitation utilized his personal helicopter to fly hundreds of humanitarian aid missions to impacted areas in Western NC, bringing much needed food, water, medicine, satellites, and more.
As his humanitarian efforts grew, Greg helped coordinate with others such as NASCAR Internet personality "Cleetus McFarland" (real name Garrett Mitchell) who assisted with his efforts. Biffle did not stop there and continued to help on the ground as well.
This level of humanitarian dedication should be honored and encouraged by NASCAR with an annually awarded Greg Biffle Humanitarian Award.
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The Issue
This is a petition to NASCAR to create an annually awarded Greg Biffle Humanitarian Award. The award as envisioned would honor the late Greg Biffle's humanitarian efforts and would be awarded at each NASCAR awards banquet at season's end. The award would be given to any active or retired driver, crew member, or other industry professional for their humanitarian efforts that year (not limited to disasters, but any community and giving back efforts where the awarded individual was an active participant and coordinator). Each year's recipient would be determined by a voting panel organized by NASCAR.
It should be noted that the NASCAR Foundation does already have the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award, however that award is designated for everyday NASCAR fans and specifically for efforts that positively impact children in their community. This would be a separate award as outlined above.
Read more about Greg Biffle and the background of this issue below.
Greg Biffle was a NASCAR legend. He won Jack Roush's first two NASCAR national series championships, the 2000 Craftsman Truck Series championship and 2002 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series championship. In the top level of the NASCAR Cup Series, Biffle won 19 points races. In 2023, for NASCAR's 75th Season, he was honored as one of NASCAR's 75 greatest drivers.
Biffle tragically passed away on December 18th, 2025 in a plane crash in Statesville, NC. Six others were on board and also sadly passed: Biffle's wife Cristina and their son Ryder, Biffle's child Emma (from his first marriage), Dennis Dutton and his son Jack, and Craig Wadsworth.
Biffle was not only a legend on the race track, but was an upstanding human being with a humanitarian heart. In 2024, Hurricane Helene brought record-level flooding to Western North Carolina, leaving many stranded and even more impacted. Greg Biffle without hesitation utilized his personal helicopter to fly hundreds of humanitarian aid missions to impacted areas in Western NC, bringing much needed food, water, medicine, satellites, and more.
As his humanitarian efforts grew, Greg helped coordinate with others such as NASCAR Internet personality "Cleetus McFarland" (real name Garrett Mitchell) who assisted with his efforts. Biffle did not stop there and continued to help on the ground as well.
This level of humanitarian dedication should be honored and encouraged by NASCAR with an annually awarded Greg Biffle Humanitarian Award.
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Petition created on December 19, 2025