Stewart Friesen came into the 2025 season riding a wave of momentum, with his first win of the year coming at Michigan International Speedway on June 7, when he edged out Grant Enfinger in a dramatic triple-overtime finish, ending a 72-race winless streak. He had been a consistent presence in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, with six top-10 finishes across 16 starts by early August, keeping hopes high for both him and his Halmar Friesen Racing team. But everything shifted on July 28.

During a Super DIRTcar Series race at Autodrome Drummond in Quebec, Canada, when Friesen’s No. 44 car jumped the cushion at the end of the backstretch, hit the retaining wall, and flipped multiple times, barrel-rolled over the barrier, and caught fire. He suffered an unstable open-book pelvic fracture, a fr

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