{"id":393889,"date":"2026-01-07T12:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:43:07","slug":"cummins-to-sponsor-brenden-butterbean-queen-nascar-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/393889\/","title":{"rendered":"Cummins to sponsor Brenden \u201cButterbean\u201d Queen NASCAR Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cummins Inc. has joined NASCAR ahead of the 2026 season. Brenden \u201cButterbean\u201d Queen will drive the No. 12 Cummins Ram 1500 for the 2026 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kauligracing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kaulig Racing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Queen is entering his first full-time season of NASCAR competition. Cummins branding will be on the No. 12 truck as a primary sponsor for every race of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Kaulig Racing is making the switch to Ram for the 2026 season. Cummins and Ram have a long history as they launched the first Cummins-powered Dodge Ram back in 1989. 3.5M Ram trucks have been built with Cummins power.<\/p>\n<p>Brenden \u201cButterbean\u201d Queen comments<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have a company with Cummins\u2019 history and worldwide reputation support me is incredible,\u201d Queen said via the team release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get behind the wheel of this Ram 1500 and represent Cummins and Kaulig Racing every weekend. This is the type of opportunity every driver dreams about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have a company with Cummins\u2019 history and worldwide reputation support me is incredible,\u201d Queen added. \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get behind the wheel of this Ram 1500 and represent Cummins and Kaulig Racing every weekend. This is the type of opportunity every driver dreams about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rice comments<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome Cummins to the Kaulig Racing family,\u201d said Chris Rice, Chief Executive Officer of Kaulig Racing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir engineering excellence and commitment to innovation are a perfect match for our vision. Brenden is an exceptional talent, and we\u2019re building a program around him that we believe can compete for wins and make a playoff run right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cummins comments<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCummins has racing in its DNA,\u201d said Brett Merritt, Vice President and President, Engine Business, Cummins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Clessie Cummins\u2019 winning the first Indianapolis 500 as a crew member to our leadership in commercial power, we\u2019ve always pushed the limits of what\u2019s possible. Brenden Queen represents that same spirit \u2013 talented, hardworking, and full of momentum. Partnering with both Kaulig Racing and Ram provides the opportunity for us to continue to write our motorsport legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cummins truck will make it\u2019s debut at Daytona International Speedway on Friday, Feb. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cummins Inc. has joined NASCAR ahead of the 2026 season. Brenden \u201cButterbean\u201d Queen will drive the No. 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-393889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}