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CREW CHIEF:
TRIPP BRUCE
OWNER:
HALMAR FRIESEN RACING “Everyone at GMS keeps pushing hard and giving us great
trucks each week and I’m excited to get to go some tracks
coming up on the schedule that I’ve been to before so I
will have some experience on the track and great trucks
prepared by Barry Swift and his team at GMS.”
Friesen has continued to make selected starts on dirt.
He now has 245 wins, and of those, 25 are Super
DIRTcar Series wins which places him 11th on the
circuit’s all-time list.
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“We bought a couple trucks,tr
we bought a
couple motors,” Friesen Fries
said of his decision
four years ago to join jo
NASCAR. “Learned
and learned. Had
Had guys like Tom Hess
and Billy Baldwin
kind of just show us
the ropes.”
As he proved on th
the dirt circuits, the 35-
year old driver has been b
quick to make all
of the necessary adjustments.
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He grew up at the dirt tracks.tra
His family owned
the half-mile Ransomville Speedway S
(NY). Like
many from the Northeast, Friesen Fr
settled on racing
open-wheeled modieds. But t
the allure of NASCAR
was too strong.
He made six starts in 2016 and 19 in 2017. He came close at
20
9
Eldora – on the dirt, of course – by leading 90 laps, but eventually
lost to Matt Crafton. Last season, he not only
he quickly developed into a Championship c
only moved to full-time,
contender.
“Our allegiance between our team and GMS
Friesen said. “We have speed every time we
that helps me as I’ve had to compete on trac
this season.
GMS is awesome,”
we go to the track and
track for the rst time a lot
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