Halmar Friesen Racing, also known as Halmar Racing Team, is an American professional

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and

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team that currently competes in the

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, fielding the No. 52

Toyota Tundra The Toyota Tundra is a full-size pickup truck manufactured in the United States by the Japanese manufacturer Toyota since May 1999. The Tundra was the second full-size pickup to be built by a Japanese manufacturer (the first was the Toyota T100 ...

full-time for

Stewart Friesen Stewart J. Friesen (born July 25, 1983) is a Canadian-American professional dirt track racing, dirt track and stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 52 Toyota Tundra#Third generation ...

and the team also fields

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cars for several drivers around the

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, including for Stewart and Jessica Friesen themselves.

Craftsman Truck Series

Truck No. 16 history

;Stewart Friesen (2016) 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 Kyle Busch Motorsports (KBM) is an American professional dirt racing team that competes in dirt divisions across the United States. They formerly competed in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, CARS Tour, CRA Super Series, A ...

and an engine from

Richard Childress Racing Richard Childress Racing (RCR) is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Cup Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series. The team is based in Welcome, North Carolina, and is owned and operated by Richard C ...

Truck No. 16 results

Truck No. 52 history

;Stewart Friesen (2017-present) 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 Tommy Baldwin Racing is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the modified ranks. The team is based in Mooresville, North Carolina, and is owned by former crew chief Tommy Baldwin Jr., son of the late modifie ...

(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

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and finished second to

Matt Crafton Matthew Justin Crafton (born June 11, 1976) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 88 Ford F-Series (fourteenth generation), Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing ...

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

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. 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

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later that year. On December 3, 2019, it was announced that the team would switch from

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in an alliance with

starting in 2020, thus ending their previous alliance with

. In 2020, after Friesen missed the playoffs, he decided to skip the race at

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In October in order to compete in a dirt race on the same day.

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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

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for his third career Truck Series win. During the 2025 season, Friesen broke a 72-race drought with a win at

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Truck No. 52 results

Truck No. 62 history

; Jessica Friesen (2021) On March 11, 2021,

Jessica Friesen Jessica L. Friesen (née Zemken, born May 6, 1986) is an American professional dirt track racing driver. She primarily competes in sprint car racing, and has raced in series like the All Star Circuit of Champions and World of Outlaws. She will al ...

announced that she would make her Truck Series debut in the

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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 Knoxville Raceway is a semi-banked half-mile dirt oval raceway (zook clay) located at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Knoxville, Iowa. Races at the "Sprint Car Capital of the World" are held on Saturday nights from April through September eac ...

, the

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. ; Jessica Friesen, Todd Bodine, and Layne Riggs (2022) After having not driven in NASCAR for five years,

Todd Bodine Todd Martin Bodine (born February 27, 1964) is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 62 Toyota Tundra for Halmar Friesen Racing, and is curre ...

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,

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, stated that Camping World would sponsor Bodine for 6 races to get him to 800 overall starts in

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. Bodine would complete in the 6 races during which he would finish 5 races, lead 3 laps, and score a top ten finish at

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. In his 800th and final overall NASCAR at

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, 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

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driver Layne Riggs would make his debut driving the truck at the 2022 race at

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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

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

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