STEWART FRIESEN
Birth Date: August 12, 1993 Hometown:
Team: No. 16 Toyota Tundra/Roush Fenway Racing
Birth Date: July 25, 1983 Hometown: Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
Team: No. 52 Chevrolet Silverado / Halmar lmar Friesen Racing
In his second full-time season in the GANDER ANDER RV & OUTDOORS Truck Series, Stewart Friesen
proved he was a Championship contender nder with a timely victory in the seminal race at Phoenix.
“What a race car,” Friesen told Fox Sports. “We were able to pass them all clean.
It’s awesome. It’s what we’ve been geared up for all year long. We just didn’t
get a lot of breaks. We lost races about every which way you could lose
them and thought it was another one tonight.
orts.ared t lose
onight.
“This one’s for everybody. We can all celebrate this one together
tomorrow and then it’s game on (at Miami). We’ve got a badass
piece for next week, too.”
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Friesen did not run as well at Homestead, falling short of
the Championship but submitting himself as a perennial
contender after a berth in the Championship 4.
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lf perennial
nship The 36-year-old from Ontario now has 37 top-10s to
his name in his Truck Series career, and nd 2019 brought
brought
his rst two victories at aforementioned d Phoenix and the
Eldora Dirt Derby.
Friesen had more than 230 dirt-racing victories when he
decided to try his luck in NASCAR at the he 2016 NASCAR
GANDER RV & OUTDOORS Truck Series ries race race on on the dirt dirt at
Eldora Speedway.
r developed a fondness for trucks
From that moment, the Canadian driver trucks
… and asphalt.
our feet wet on asphalt, and we were
d.
“We did a bit of racing in 2016 to get pleased with our success,” Friesen said.
ries, Friesen has made the successful
ed and Sprint cars to a 700-horsepower
CAR Now a full-time regular in the Truck Series,successful
adjustment from open-wheeled modipickup by nishing seventh in the NASCAR Playoffs in 2018 and making a nal
four run a season later.
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