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course – by leading 90 laps, but eventually losing to Matt CHEVROLET SILVERADO
CREW CHIEF:
Crafton. Last season he not only moved to fulltime, he TRIPP BRUCE
quickly developed into a championship contender. OWNER:

Needed a victory at Talladega last October to move out HALMAR FRIESEN RACING FEATURED DRIVERS

of the first round, Friesen had issues with a broken valve
spring, but still managed to finish sixth. That, however, left
have some experience on the track and great trucks
him four points short of making the cut.
prepared by Barry [Swift] and his team at GMS.”

Friesen and co-owner Chris Larsen will return with their
Friesen has continued to make selected starts on
familiar No. 52 Chevrolet Silverado this year. And they will
dirt. He now has 245 wins, and of those, 25 are
do it with continued technical alliance with GMS Racing,
Super DIRTcar Series wins which places him 11th
which will build and fabricate its own fleet of NASCAR
on circuit’s the all-time list.
trucks.

“Our allegiance between our team and GMS is awesome,” FOLLOW ONLINE
Friesen said. “We have speed every time we go to the

track and that helps me as I’ve had to compete on track for
the first time a lot this season. @StewartFriesen

@stewartfriesenracing
“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 stewartfriesenracing

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