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Halmar Friesen Racing

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

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

Truck No. 16, 52 history

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

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

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

Jessica Friesen (2021)

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)

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

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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