{"id":221684,"date":"2025-09-12T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221684\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:47:10","slug":"brenden-butterbean-queens-nascar-stock-is-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/221684\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenden ‘Butterbean’ Queen’s NASCAR stock is on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 27-years-old, Brenden ‘Butterbean’ Queen is supposed to be too old to make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut based on the standards of this century but those standards have also shifted over the past half decade or so.<\/p>\n

Queen was content to be a short track lifer, earning most of his accolades in the CARS Late Model Stock Tour but circumstances have allowed him to begin earnestly pursuing a NASCAR national touring career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If this sounds familiar, it\u2019s because Josh Berry paved a similar path earlier not that long ago, running his first\u00a0full-time Xfinity Series season at 29-years-old and only after accomplishing practically all of his goals in Late Model Stock competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, Josh Berry getting his opportunity really helped people like me,\u201d Queen said on Friday during a press conference at Bristol on Friday in advance of his debut with Kaulig Racing. \u00a0\u201cFloRacing did a lot to help me showcase my brand, me as a person, and now being in ARCA and on FS1, showing everyone who I am beyond a race car driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

That person, by the way, is an affable and authentic child-at-heart with a tenacious competitive streak, a cool nickname and a devout fan base. Put the package together, and it has Queen on the verge of an ARCA Racing Series championship and a similar breakthrough as Berry.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think all of that has helped a lot, but Josh making it when he did, shows the timing just has to work for everyone in this sport. And for me, everything just opened up at the right time. I\u2019ve tried to make the most of every opportunity because you never know what is next.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Queen, it was befriending local dirt racer John Staton, and just wanting to hang out with him on weekends he wasn\u2019t racing himself.\u00a0<\/a>Staton put Queen in his dirt Late Model, where they immediately started winning races at Dixie Speedway, convincing the Virginia business owner to sponsor Queen in the CARS Tour as well.<\/p>\n

The extra funding led Queen to joining Lee Pulliam Performance, where they captured the CARS Tour championship last season. Queen also scored a top-five in his Truck Series debut at North Wilkesboro for Tricon Garage, which raised his stock all the higher.<\/p>\n

As Berry and Kaden Honeycutt have proven, winning in the CARS Tour creates an expectation of contending at any level, and that\u2019s why Queen expects to fare well at Bristol on Friday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire CARS Tour field is separated by a tenth, and if you\u2019re on the wrong side of that tenth, you\u2019re 20th,\u201d Queen said. \u201cSo I\u2019ve experienced competition. Obviously, racing the Truck Series has prepared me for this. The ARCA helps just getting used to tracks I\u2019ve never been to before.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not going to be easy because nothing in racing comes easy but I have followed the Xfinity Series for a long time, and I have raced quite a bit with the drivers in this series now, so I\u2019m excited to see where we stack up.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his long-term future, industry chatter has Queen set to join Kaulig in the Truck Series factory RAM program next season, but the driver himself say not so fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never rule out anything and obviously, what Kaulig Racing is doing is very impressive,\u201d Queen said. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely in my considerations, but we\u2019re working on everything and I don\u2019t have anything to announced as of now, but we\u2019ll keep working at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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