To run the full NASCAR FedEx Freight Truck Series next season, 2026 Rookie of the Year Brenden “Butterbean” Queen will need something he’s never had—a passport.
“I’ve never been out of the country,” Queen said Tuesday morning at the Adrienne Arsht Center, site of the end-of-season NASCAR Awards.
On Sept. 5, the series will race at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. That’s one of three tracks on the 2027 schedule that will be new to Queen. The others are Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Pocono Raceway.
“I haven’t ever been to Bowman Gray, surprisingly,” said Queen, who comes from a late model stock car background. “I’ve wanted to go just to watch a normal Saturday modified race…
“It’s probably going to be crazy, but to be a part of the first time the trucks are going there, to be a part of history there… Being a part of the Ram return is history and now being a part of that is going to be something cool, and I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of tore-up front bumpers there.”
Queen ended the 2026 season 13th in the Truck Series standings, the highest finisher among five entries from Kaulig Racing, which shepherded the return of the Ram brand to the series this year and will field Dodge Chargers in that brand’s return to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2027.
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