{"id":54153,"date":"2025-08-08T09:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54153\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:25:08","slug":"nascar-star-explains-how-he-was-given-unshakeable-nickname-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54153\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR star explains how he was given unshakeable nickname – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/a> is no stranger to famous nicknames such as \u2018The Intimidator (Dale Earnhardt), \u2018The King\u2019 (Richard Petty), or \u2018Rowdy\u2019 (Kyle Busch<\/a>), but a new challenger for one of the sport\u2019s best names has emerged in recent years: \u2018Butterbean.\u2019<\/p>\n

Brenden Queen, also known as \u2018Butterbean,\u2019 currently leads the way in what is his first full-time ARCA Menards Series, with five wins and nine total top 10s through 12 races in the No. 28 Pinnacle Racing Group Chevrolet. The 27-year-old has also broken into the Craftsman Truck Series, which will head to Watkins Glen on Friday<\/a>, making four appearances across the last two seasons, most recently finishing 16th in the TSport 200 in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet.<\/p>\n

The former Late Model champion now has a devoted following of fans, known as \u201cBean Nation,\u201d courtesy of his unique nickname. And in a recent interview with 2014 Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick<\/a>, Queen explained that his nickname came about long before his racing days.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Butterbean thing came from when I was a baby,\u201d he explained on the ‘Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a>‘ podcast. \u201cMy granddad called my mom and was like, ‘Turn the TV on, like, your son’s old TV.\u2019 She turned it on, and it was Butterbean the boxer (Eric Esch)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I looked like him as a baby, just had the same, yeah, baby features, right? So, my whole life, my mom called me \u2018Butter\u2019 or \u2018Butterbean\u2019 and just half the time I didn’t even respond to my name, it just always was \u2018Butter\u2019 or something like that. And honestly, it was just kind of between family, and then my friends found out, the teachers found out, the school called me by it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen\u2019s nickname emerged on the racing scene during his time racing in Legend Cars, although he couldn\u2019t remember if it was his idea to add it to his car\u2019s name rail.<\/p>\n

Then, around 2016 or 2017, Queen said he had the opportunity to drop the name when creating merchandise, but seeing an opportunity to create his own unique brand, he stuck with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be different. People hear names all the time, but you don’t forget \u2018Butterbean,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cYou might forget Brendan, but you’re not going to forget \u2018Butterbean.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Now well known in the NASCAR world as \u2018Butterbean,\u2019 Queen believes the combination of his brand and the fact that he used to work at The Port of Virginia as a longshoreman has helped him remain relatable to fans.<\/p>\n

DON’T MISS…<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, when I climb that fence, I’m one of those on the other side, I’m ready to come over there and hang out with y’all,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like the only difference is I got an opportunity, and I make the most of it, but I’ll never be above those people spending their hard-earned money to come watch us race. If they’re not there, what am I racing for?\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen will return to action on Friday in the ARCA Medards Series at Watkins Glen when he looks to win his first back-to-back races of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR is no stranger to famous nicknames such as \u2018The Intimidator (Dale Earnhardt), \u2018The King\u2019 (Richard Petty), or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[7059,7063,36383,49,48,2332,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-54153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-arca-menards-series","9":"tag-brenden-queen","10":"tag-butterbean","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-motorsport-section","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54153","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=54153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}