🇨🇦 Stewart Friesen

Stewart Friesen is a professional competing full-time in NASCAR Truck Series for Halmar Friesen Racing, driving the No. 52 Toyota Tundra, and part-time in ARCA Menards Series. His career spans 11 seasons from 2016 to the present, almost entirely in single-driver national stock car racing in the United States. He rates 4,865 on the Racer Rating scale, placing him among professional competitors.[1]

Friesen has accumulated 222 starts across his indexed record, taking three wins and 25 podiums. His primary series is NASCAR Truck, where he has raced 217 times since 2016, recording three wins and 24 podiums; he competes predominantly on oval tracks in that series. His 2026 campaign in NASCAR Truck remains in progress, with one podium from 19 rounds raced so far and a current standing of ninth in the championship. He has made brief appearances in NASCAR Canada Series, ARCA Menards Series and NASCAR Cup Series, with his sole Cup start coming in 2021.[2]

Friesen races regularly against established drivers in the Truck Series field. Ben Rhodes, a professional with over 250 Truck Series starts, has proven closely matched with him across their head-to-head meetings. Grant Enfinger, who won the ARCA Menards Series title in consecutive years and has 235 Truck Series starts, is another frequent rival at equivalent pace. Friesen has finished ahead of Christopher Bell, an elite professional and two-time champion, on eight occasions across their meetings in the Truck Series, and has beaten Chase Briscoe, a former ARCA champion and regular in NASCAR's top three national series, seven times. His record in a field mixing amateur and established professional drivers reflects his standing as a consistent middle-order contender in the Truck Series.