Born April 10th, 1985, Brett graduated from Parview High School where he was 3 time letterman for the AAAAA Georgia State Champion wrestling team.. He and his brother Ken began racing Go Carts when he was 15 years old with the help of their High School football coach Cecil Flowe.

After 2 years Brett moved to the Aarons Pro Challenge series where he shared a car with his brother the first year and the second year he and his brother had their won race cars. That year in 2004, he finished 4th in the overall points while his brother finished 2nd to 4 time national champion Terry Mathis. The Butler Brothers became a name to be reckoned with. In 2005, Brett moved to North Carolina and began racing super late models at Hickory Motor Speedway where he finished 12th overall in points while only running a part time schedule. He also made his Hooters Pro Cup debut as he qualified for his first race and finished 21st preparing to run a full schedule in 2006.

In 2006 he was the runner up for Rookie of the Year in the Southern Division and qualified for the championship series and finished 5th overal amongst rookies in the championship races. He finished the regular season at Lakeland, FL with an 8th place finish. Brett plans to run the full Hooters Southern Division Schedule and 5 Northern Division races in 2007. He also expects to run all the championship races and run for the championship as part of the "young guns program" with Michael Waltrip Racing.