{"id":401453,"date":"2025-09-06T01:49:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401453\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:49:23","slug":"brenden-butterbean-queen-to-make-nascar-xfinity-debut-at-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401453\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenden &#8216;Butterbean&#8217; Queen to make NASCAR Xfinity debut at Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brenden Queen, known by his many fans as &#8216;Butterbean,&#8217; will make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut next weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway. He will pilot the No. 11 Chevrolet for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/kaulig-racing\/7994\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaulig Racing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team has been using a variety of drivers since parting ways with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/josh-williams\/17955\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Williams<\/a> in the middle of the season. Carson Hocevar drove the car at Iowa, followed by Michael McDowell at Watkins Glen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/justin-haley\/442567\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Haley<\/a> at Daytona, and reigning Supercars champion Will Brown at Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 11&#8217;s best finish this year is sixth, with just three top tens this year. Queen will become the car&#8217;s sixth different driver in the last six races.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a dream of mine to get a chance to drive in the Xfinity Series,\u201d said Queen. \u201cI can\u2019t thank everyone at Kaulig Racing enough for making that dream become a reality. I\u2019m fortunate to have this opportunity, and I can\u2019t wait to get to Bristol and give the team all I\u2019ve got and have a solid day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old made a name for himself in late models, where he won several prestigious events and collected the 2024\u00a0Late Model Stock Car Tour championship.<\/p>\n<p>He currently leads the ARCA championship standings with six wins in 16 starts this year, but he also has four starts in the NASCAR Truck Series. He finished fourth in his Truck debut at North Wilkesboro last year, and he&#8217;s since run three additional races in 2025 with both Spire Motorsports and TRICON Garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Queen will be a teammate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/christian-eckes\/444429\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Eckes<\/a> in the No. 16 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/daniel-dye\/956691\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Dye<\/a> in the No. 10, who are both full-time drivers for Kaulig. Queen&#8217;s name has also come up as a potential driver for Kaulig&#8217;s new Truck Series fleet, as the team plans to run five entries as part of a new partnership with Ram in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re super excited to be a part of\u00a0Brenden\u2019s next steps in his racing career,\u201d said Chris Rice, president of Kaulig Racing. \u201cHe\u00a0has made a splash in the\u00a0ARCA\u00a0Menards\u00a0Series\u00a0and is an all-around great\u00a0short track racer,\u00a0so we\u2019re looking forward to seeing what he can do in the Xfinity\u00a0Series under the lights at Bristol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brenden Queen, known by his many fans as &#8216;Butterbean,&#8217; will make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut next weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[138463,381,138465,12221,748,393,4884,138464,12220,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-brenden-butterbean-queen-to-make-nascar-xfinity-debut-at-bristol","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-ii","11":"tag-bristol-motor-speedway","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-kaulig-racing","16":"tag-nascar-xfinity","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115154843237079819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}