Halmar Friesen Racing

Halmar Friesen Racing

Owner(s)	Chris Larsen Stewart Friesen
Base	Statesville, North Carolina
Series	NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
Race drivers	52. Stewart Friesen
Sponsors	52. Halmar International, Ferris Mowers, Gearwrench Tools
Manufacturer	Chevrolet (2016–2019) Toyota (2020–present)
Opened	2016
Career
Debut	2016 Aspen Dental Eldora Dirt Derby (Eldora)
Latest race	2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Race (Phoenix)
Races competed	104
Drivers' Championships	0
Race victories	3
Pole positions	3

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. For the team's debut race at Eldora, the truck had a body from Kyle Busch Motorsports and an engine from Richard Childress Racing.

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. 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.

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

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.

On August 23, 2017, HFR announced the end of its partnership with Baldwin and the start of a new technical alliance with GMS Racing. 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. On August 1, 2019, Friesen finally broke through to win his first career NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at Eldora. 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. 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. 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
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
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
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
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
	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
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
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
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. On March 28, 2022, the team announced that Jessica Friesen would return to drive the No. 62 in the two dirt races again. 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. 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.

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	-*	-*

External links

• Official website
• Halmar Friesen Racing on Twitter