FRIESEN, RUGGERIO SECURE TOP-10 FINISHES AT NASHVILLE
Halmar Friesen Racing Bring Home Both Trucks Inside Top-11
LEBANON, Tenn. (May 29, 2026) – Stewart Friesen led Team Toyota with a sixth-place finish in Friday night’s rain-delayed NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway. Gio Ruggerio also recorded a top-10 finish, coming home ninth.
Parker Retzlaff, making his debut for Halmar Friesen Racing in the team’s second No. 62 Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, finished 11th, giving the organization two trucks in the top 11. Early in the race – which concluded just after 1 a.m. ET – Kaden Honeycutt ran in the runner-up position for much of the 150-lap event. However, Honeycutt lost power with 30 laps to go and was eventually pushed to pit road, where the TRICON Garage team made a battery change. The issue ultimately took him out of contention for the race win.
TOYOTA RACING Post-Race Recap
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS)
Nashville Superspeedway
Race 11 of 23 – 199.5 Miles, 150 Laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Layne Riggs*
2nd, Rajah Caruth
3rd, Chandler Smith*
4th, Ross Chastain*
5th, Tyler Ankrum
6th, STEWART FRIESEN
9th, GIO RUGGIERO
11th PARKER RETZLAFF
13th, BRANDON JONES
27th, KADEN HONEYCUTT
30th, WILLIAM SAWALICH
33rd, TANNER GRAY
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
STEWART FRIESEN, No. 52 Halmar International Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, Halmar Friesen Racing
Finishing Position: 6th
How were you able to rally to finish in sixth?
“Really, really, fast Toyota Tundra TRD Pro. Dustin (Dunn, crew chief) did a really good job getting this thing setup. We had some misfortune there where the lugnut took the valve stem off. Had to come in, but it took most of the splitter off and we were really tight after that. We just kept adjusting on it to overcome that. It was a good call to get tires, but I overdrove it, tried to get too much and bounced it off the fence and then we ended up sixth. It’s ok, from where the last couple of races have been and what we’ve battled with, we always battle something but it’s ok.”
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