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Halmar Friesen Racing
Owner(s)Chris Larsen
Stewart Friesen
BaseStatesville, North Carolina
SeriesNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race drivers52. Stewart Friesen
Sponsors52. Halmar International, Ferris Mowers, Gearwrench Tools
ManufacturerChevrolet (2016–2019) Toyota (2020–present)
Opened2016
Career
Debut2016 Aspen Dental Eldora Dirt Derby (Eldora)
Latest race2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Race (Phoenix)
Races competed104
Drivers' Championships0
Race victories3
Pole positions3

Halmar Friesen Racing, also known as Halmar Racing Team, is an American professional stock car racing and dirt track racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, fielding the No. 52 Toyota Tundra full-time for Stewart Friesen and the team also fields modified racing cars for several drivers around the Northeastern United States, including for Stewart and Jessica Friesen themselves.

Craftsman Truck Series

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Stewart Friesen driving the No. 16 at Bristol in 2016
The team is also known as Halmar Racing Team

Truck No. 16, 52 history

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Stewart Friesen driving the No. 52 at Dover in 2017
Stewart Friesen driving the No. 52 at Darlington in September 2021
Stewart Friesen (2016–present)

The team ran part-time in 2016, using the No. 16 and entering the short track races with Friesen as driver.[1] For the team's debut race at Eldora, the truck had a body from Kyle Busch Motorsports and an engine from Richard Childress Racing.[2]

In 2017, the team announced plans to run the full Truck Series schedule as Halmar Friesen Racing with Friesen driving the renumbered No. 52 truck.[3] HFR hired Cup Series team owner Tommy Baldwin Jr. of Tommy Baldwin Racing (which reduced from a full-time to a part-time Cup Series schedule in 2017) to serve as team manager.[4]

After the June Texas race, the team announced a two-race hiatus and that they would return in Kentucky in July.[5]

Friesen captured the pole for the 2017 Eldora Dirt Derby and finished second to Matt Crafton in the race after leading over half of the laps.[6]

On August 23, 2017, HFR announced the end of its partnership with Baldwin and the start of a new technical alliance with GMS Racing.[7] The same day the team announce that Tommy Baldwin's brother in law, longtime NASCAR Crew Chief, Trip Bruce would take over running the team and has remained a staple at HFR from 2018 to 2021 as Stewart's Crew Chief and in 2022 moved into the role of Director of Competition.

On August 16, 2018, Friesen made the truck series playoffs for the first time in the organization's history.

On July 11, 2019, NASCAR confiscated the No. 52 truck before the Kentucky race after discovering an issue with the firewall during pre-race inspection. The team was able to use their backup truck, which finished second in the race.[8] On August 1, 2019, Friesen finally broke through to win his first career NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at Eldora.[9] Friesen would also go onto win at Phoenix Raceway later that year.

On December 3, 2019, it was announced that the team would switch from Chevrolet to Toyota in an alliance with Kyle Busch Motorsports starting in 2020, thus ending their previous alliance with GMS Racing.[10] In 2020, after Friesen missed the playoffs, he decided to skip the race at Kansas Speedway In October in order to compete in a dirt race on the same day. Timothy Peters would fill in for Friesen in the No. 52 in the Truck Series race.[11] Friesen would run his fourth full season in the Truck Series in 2021 and would make the playoffs again despite not winning any races that year. Friesen ran his fifth full season in the Truck Series in 2022 in the No. 52 truck. Friesen would win at Texas Motor Speedway for his third career Truck Series win.

Truck No. 52 results

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCTC Pts Ref
2016 Stewart Friesen 16 Chevy DAY ATL MAR KAN DOV CLT TEX IOW GTW KEN ELD
28 		POC BRI
22 		MCH MSP CHI NHA
13 		LVS
19 		TAL MAR TEX PHO
18 		HOM
29 		33rd 69 [12]
2017 52 DAY
31 		ATL
19 		MAR
25 		KAN
32 		CLT
23 		DOV
28 		TEX
22 		GTW IOW KEN
12 		ELD
2* 		POC
12 		MCH
13 		BRI
29 		MSP CHI NHA
5 		LVS
23 		TAL
17 		MAR
6 		TEX
14 		PHO
6 		HOM
7 		14th 422 [13]
2018 DAY
27 		ATL
6 		LVS
5 		MAR
20 		DOV
23 		KAN
3 		CLT
6 		TEX
2 		IOW
9 		GTW
13 		CHI
19 		KEN
2 		ELD
3 		POC
4 		MCH
8 		BRI
2 		MSP
7 		LVS
17 		TAL
6 		MAR
11 		TEX
8 		PHO
5 		HOM
4 		7th 2265 [14]
2019 DAY
10 		ATL
18 		LVS
4 		MAR
5 		TEX
2 		DOV
12 		KAN
15* 		CLT
3 		TEX
20 		IOW
5 		GTW
3 		CHI
3 		KEN
2 		POC
32 		ELD
1 		MCH
8 		BRI
4 		MSP
7 		LVS
19 		TAL
5 		MAR
6 		PHO
1 		HOM
11 		4th 4026 [15]
2020 Toyota DAY
21 		LVS
9 		CLT
30 		ATL
10 		HOM
14 		POC
8 		KEN
15 		TEX
4 		KAN
27 		KAN
34 		MCH
39 		DRC
10 		DOV
9 		GTW
5 		DAR
8 		RCH
10 		BRI
32 		LVS
4 		TAL
17 		TEX
28 		MAR
6 		PHO
6 		15th 504 [16]
Timothy Peters KAN
7
2021 Stewart Friesen DAY
32 		DRC
11 		LVS
4 		ATL
10 		BRD
12 		RCH
13 		KAN
14 		DAR
25 		COA
17 		CLT
4 		TEX
34 		NSH
5 		POC
33 		KNX
27 		GLN
20 		GTW
4 		DAR
3 		BRI
4 		LVS
6 		TAL
22 		MAR
17 		PHO
2 		6th 2275 [17]
2022 DAY
16 		LVS
3 		ATL
6* 		COA
9 		MAR
13 		BRD
11 		DAR
12 		KAN
14 		TEX
1* 		CLT
9 		GTW
4 		SON
31 		KNX
5 		NSH
5 		MOH
4 		POC
14 		IRP
4 		RCH
11 		KAN
20 		BRI
7 		TAL
20 		HOM
3 		PHO
5 		6th 2276 [18]
2023 DAY
28 		LVS
14 		ATL
22 		COA
14 		TEX
3 		BRD
23 		MAR
31 		KAN
4 		DAR
2 		NWS
13 		CLT
22 		GTW
3 		NSH
18 		MOH
4 		POC
32 		RCH
27 		IRP
30 		MLW
30 		KAN
7 		BRI
14 		TAL
34 		HOM
6 		PHO
24 		15th 537 [19]
2024 DAY
14 		ATL
23 		LVS
18 		BRI
22 		COA
20 		MAR
19 		TEX
13 		KAN
25 		DAR
14 		NWS
10 		CLT
2 		GTW
8 		NSH
11 		POC
7 		IRP
33 		RCH
25 		MLW
20 		BRI
9 		KAN
24 		TAL
13 		HOM
6 		MAR
10 		PHO
18 		14th 557

Truck No. 62 history

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Todd Bodine in the No. 62 at Sonoma Raceway in 2022

Jessica Friesen (2021)

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On March 11, 2021, Jessica Friesen announced that she would make her Truck Series debut in the Pinty's Dirt Truck Race alongside her husband in the No. 62. However, she failed to qualify after rain washed out the heat races. Instead, she would make her debut in the other dirt race for the Truck Series at Knoxville Raceway, the Corn Belt 150.

Jessica Friesen, Todd Bodine, and Layne Riggs (2022)

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After having not driven in NASCAR for five years, Todd Bodine returned to the Truck Series to drive for Halmar Friesen Racing in the No. 62 at Las Vegas. The CEO of series title sponsor Camping World, Marcus Lemonis, stated that Camping World would sponsor Bodine for 6 races to get him to 800 overall starts in NASCAR. Bodine would complete in the 6 races during which he would finish 5 races, lead 3 laps, and score a top ten finish at Darlington Raceway. In his 800th and final overall NASCAR at Pocono Raceway, Bodine would finish 36th after he crashed 12 laps into the race.[20] On March 28, 2022, the team announced that Jessica Friesen would return to drive the No. 62 in the two dirt races again.[21] She would fail to qualify at Bristol for the second consecutive year. She would go onto to race at Knoxville where she had a rollover crash after hitting the tracks berm that was not shown in the fox sports broadcast of the race.

In July 2022 it was announced that NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series driver Layne Riggs would make his debut driving the truck at the 2022 race at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park and would finish 7th, at the next race at Richmond Raceway he would qualify 4th but would finish 19th 2 laps down.[22] Riggs would make his final start of the year at the season finale at Phoenix Raceway where he would qualify 2nd and lead five laps early in the race, but he would later drop back and finish 13th.[23]

Truck No. 62 results

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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCTC Pts
2021 Jessica Friesen 62 Toyota DAY DRC LVS ATL BRD
DNQ 		RCH KAN DAR COA CLT TEX NSH POC KNX
26 		GLN GTW DAR BRI LVS TAL MAR PHO 78th 11
2022 Todd Bodine DAY LVS
21 		ATL COA MAR DAR
10 		KAN TEX
13 		CLT GTW SON
20 		NSH
27 		MOH POC
36
Jessica Friesen BRD
DNQ 		KNX
34
Layne Riggs IRP
7 		RCH
19 		KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO
13
2023 Jessica Friesen DAY LVS ATL COA TEX BRD
DNQ 		MAR KAN DAR NWS CLT GTW NSH MOH POC RCH IRP MIL KAN BRI TAL HOM PHO -* -*

References

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  1. ^ "Camping World Truck Statistics: Stewart Friesen - 2016 [DriverAverages.com]". www.driveraverages.com. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  2. ^ "Stewart Friesen: The Eyes of the Northeast Were on You – DTD Exclusive". Dirt Track Digest. July 22, 2016. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  3. ^ "Halmar Friesen Racing Announces NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Debut - NASCAR Camping World Truck Series News - MRN.com". www.mrn.com. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  4. ^ McFadin, Daniel (January 9, 2017). "Halmar Friesen Racing enters Truck Series under leadership of Tommy Baldwin". NBC Sports. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
  5. ^ "Halmar Friesen Racing taking two-week hiatus from Truck competition". Jayski's Silly Season Site. ESPN. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  6. ^ "Stewart Friesen finishes 2nd in NASCAR Trucks race at Eldora Speedway". syracuse.com. July 20, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  7. ^ Bonkowski, Jerry (August 23, 2017). "Halmar Friesen Racing Truck team splits with Tommy Baldwin Jr., forms alliance with GMS Racing". NBC Sports. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  8. ^ "NASCAR confiscates No. 52 truck from Halmar Racing". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  9. ^ "Stewart Friesen scores first Gander Trucks victory, wins at Eldora". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. August 1, 2019. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  10. ^ Rutherford, Kevin (December 3, 2020). "Stewart Friesen Remaining in Truck Series, Moving to Toyota in 2020". Frontstretch. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
  11. ^ Gillispie, Zach (October 9, 2020). "Timothy Peters Replacing Stewart Friesen at Kansas". Frontstretch. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  12. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  13. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2017 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  14. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  15. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  16. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
  17. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  18. ^ "Stewart Friesen – 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved February 19, 2022.
  19. ^ NASCAR Statistics (November 4, 2024). "Owner Points Following Race #23". Jayski.com. Retrieved February 27, 2024.
  20. ^ "Bodine Making Truck Return with Halmar Friesen Racing". December 13, 2021.
  21. ^ "Jessica Friesen Returning to Truck Racing at Bristol, Knoxville Dirt Races". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. March 29, 2022.
  22. ^ "Layne Riggs to Make Truck Debut at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park". Jayski's NASCAR Silly Season Site. July 19, 2022. Retrieved July 19, 2022.
  23. ^ "2022 NASCAR Truck Results, Standings, Rankings and Statistics". us.motorsport.com. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
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