Stewart Friesen Tag

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — While he may just be in a fill-in role until his son Todd turns 18, David Gilliland is making good use of the Kyle Busch Motorsports horsepower at his disposal by winning the pole for Friday night’s NextEra Energy Resources 250 at Daytona. Gilliland, the 2007 Daytona 500 polesitter, was the fastest in the first round of qualifying and backed it up in the second round with a lap of 49.017 seconds, 183.610 mph, to score his first career pole inRead More

By Seth Eggert, Staff Writer A new season means a continued relationship with NASCAR Camping World Truck Series powerhouse GMS Racing for Halmar Friesen Racing. Stewart Friesen’s No. 52 Halmar International first aligned with GMS Racing last season. Prior to the team’s alliance with GMS Racing, Friesen’s best finish was 13th at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in 2016. After teaming with GMS, HFR’s best result was a runner-up at Eldora Speedway. Friesen, whose background is dirt racing, backed that second-place finish up with a fifth at New Hampshire in 2017.Read More

By NASCAR Wire Service MARTINSVILLE, Va. – Blowing around two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Matt Crafton after a restart with 10 laps left, 19-year-old Noah Gragson scored his first victory in Saturday’s Texas Roadhouse 200 at Martinsville Speedway. The Sunoco Rookie of the Year contender frustrated Playoff competitors Crafton and Johnny Sauter, who finished second and third behind him. After talking the checkered flag, Gragson parked his No. 51 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota near the flag stand and climbed to the top of the frontstretch catchfence in celebration. AfterRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Christopher Bell has been the man to beat throughout the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season and with a place in the Round of Six already locked down, the Kyle Busch Motorsports driver will roll off first in Saturday’s Fred’s 250 at Talladega, which will be a playoff elimination race for his fellow drivers not yet locked in. After Saturday’s race, the current eight driver playoff field will be cut down to six. Bell and Ben Rhodes are already locked in, but the finalRead More

By Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service LOUDON, N.H. – In Christopher Bell’s dominating win in Saturday’s UNOH 175 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the rich got richer. The top seed in the series Playoffs, Bell won the first two stages of the opening postseason event and took the checkered flag 1.248 seconds ahead of runner-up Ryan Truex to notch his fifth victory of the season. The win earned Bell automatic advancement into the second round of the Playoffs, gave him an additional seven playoffRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  A few weeks off for a hiatus and a new alliance with GMS Racing was just what Stewart Friesen needed. Friesen finished fifth after running inside the top-10 throughout the entire NASCAR Camping World Truck Series UNOH 175 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Friesen ran as high as third in the No. 52 We Build America Chevrolet Silverado in the running order in the late stages of the race. He battled with the likes of Grant Enfinger, Ryan Truex, as well as Playoff competitors JohnnyRead More

By Chris Knight, NASCAR Wire Service ROSSBURG, Ohio – Using a late-race restart 18 laps from the finish and a strategy to ‘go where the others aren’t,’ Matt Crafton muscled past veteran dirt racer Stewart Friesen to win Wednesday night’s fifth annual Eldora Dirt Derby 150 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora Speedway. Over the last forty laps of the race, Crafton patiently worked his way from the bottom of the top-10 and took advantage of a Lap 127 caution to position himself to challenge a dominant Friesen forRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Driving for the underdog Halmar Friesen Racing team, Stewart Friesen, a dirt racing specialist, had the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora Speedway circled on the calendar as one race that his team could pull off the upset and score his first win. After Wednesday night’s Eldora Dirt Derby, the Truck Series field certainly knew that Friesen was there. Friesen kicked off the day by scoring the pole for the race and then going out and backing it up by winning his qualifyingRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer For this week’s edition of Climbing the Ladder, we sat down with Stewart Friesen. Friesen is a 33-year-old NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver that drives the No. 52 Halmar International Chevrolet Silverado in the Truck Series and the No. 44 Halmar International Modified in the Super DIRTcar Series for Halmar-Friesen Racing. Friesen is competing for the 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series as well as Rookie of the Year honors and in the Super DIRTcar Series. Seth Eggert: How did you become interested inRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer Chris Larsen and Stewart Friesen have announced that they will campaign the full 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season, as well as the formation of Halmar Friesen Racing. Friesen will pilot the No. 52 Chevrolet Silverado, with Halmar International as the primary sponsor. Veteran NASCAR owner and crew chief, Tommy Baldwin Jr., will handle the day-to-day operations of the new team. Baldwin said he was “proud of the partnership” on social media. In 2016, Friesen made his NCWTS debut at Eldora Speedway where heRead More