Early years in March 2018 Friesen started racing early in life, his family owning
Ransomville Speedway in Western
New York. After racing
go-karts, Friesen raced big-blocks with widespread success in the
Northeast United States, advancing to the 2010 World Finals at
Charlotte Motor Speedway. He was the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 Modified track champion at
Fonda Speedway. Friesen was one of the top competitors in the SuperDIRT Series in the mid-2010s, and he also has triumphed in the
World of Outlaws sprint car series, winning over 230 career races as of the end of the 2017 season. He has won the Syracuse 200 Modified race four times. Friesen has run over nine-hundred dirt races in his career. Eventually, he met Chris Larsen, who gave Friesen his first
NASCAR ride at
Eldora Speedway, which was supposed to be a one-time deal. However, the partnership blossomed into a full-time ride. On occasion, Friesen runs NASCAR and dirt on the same day. He maintains an active presence on New York dirt tracks such as Fonda Speedway and Utica-Rome Speedway.
NASCAR Breaking into
NASCAR with the 2016
Aspen Dental Eldora Dirt Derby, Friesen put his No. 16
Halmar Racing truck into the twelfth starting spot on the
grid by virtue of a second-place finish in his heat. However, contact with
Caleb Holman ruined his night, and Friesen's debut race resulted in a 28th-place finish. Running five more races in the season, Friesen recorded three top-twenty finishes, the best being a thirteenth at
New Hampshire Motor Speedway. On January 9, 2017, Friesen announced that he would run the full 2017 season in the Halmar Friesen Racing (HFR) No. 52 truck with
Tommy Baldwin Jr. coming on as a team manager. In June, following the first seven races of the season, HFR announced it would undergo a two-week hiatus before returning at
Kentucky Speedway in July. At Eldora, Friesen qualified on the
pole position and remained in the place for the start of the feature after winning his heat race. He led more than half the laps and claimed the victory in the second stage but lost the lead to
Matt Crafton in the closing laps, finishing a then-career-best second. About a month after Eldora run, the team took another two-race break while severing its relationship with Baldwin and making a new technical alliance with
GMS Racing. After returning to competition, Friesen scored four finishes of seventh or better in the season's last six races, climbing to fourteenth in the season-ending points tally. For 2018, HFR continued the alliance with GMS, so much so that GMS driver
Johnny Sauter referenced Friesen as a teammate. After advancing to the playoffs and a best finish of second on three occasions throughout the year, he finished seventh in the final points standings after being eliminated in the Round of 8. Friesen remained at HFR in an alliance with GMS for the third straight year in 2019. He was also contacted by
JR Motorsports to run a partial schedule in the
NASCAR Xfinity Series, but nothing came of it. At
Kansas Speedway, Friesen led both practices, won both Stage One and Stage Two and led the most laps, but ran out of fuel with three laps to go due to a pit communication on the previous pit stop, in which the fuelman did not put enough fuel in the truck, handing the win to
Ross Chastain and relegating Friesen to fifteenth, furthering a streak of near-misses for Friesen. On August 1, 2019, Friesen won his first career NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race at
Eldora. On November 8, Friesen achieved his second career victory and his first on a paved track by winning at
Phoenix after passing
Brandon Jones with four laps remaining. As a result, Friesen qualified for the Championship 4 for the first time but ultimately finished eleventh at
Homestead and fourth in the final standings. After missing the playoffs in 2020, Friesen later abandoned a full-time Truck schedule and skipped a race at
Kansas Speedway in order to run the Short Track Super Series at
Port Royal Speedway. On the night of the Kansas truck event, Friesen finished second to Mat Williamson in a $53,000-to-win race at Port Royal. Friesen returned with his No. 52 team to the Truck Series full-time in 2021, and despite having a worse season and missing the playoffs in 2020, HFR remained with Toyota. Later in the year, Friesen would make his debut in the
NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 77 for
Spire Motorsports in the series' new
dirt race at
Bristol. Despite driving a Toyota in the Truck Series, Friesen drove for Spire, a Chevrolet team, in this one race. He finished 23rd, one lap down. Despite not winning a Truck race for the second straight season, Friesen made the Playoffs, scored his best of second in the season finale at Phoenix, and finished sixth in the final standings. in 2022 in 2025 On May 20, 2022, Friesen broke a 54-race winless streak in the Truck Series by scoring his third career victory at Texas after passing
Christian Eckes for the lead in Overtime. Friesen returned to the Truck Series in 2023. He scored five top-fives and seven top-tens, but went winless and missed the playoffs. He finished twelfth in the final standings. The 2024 season would follow a similar trend, with Friesen scoring seven top-ten finishes and one top-five, as well as a pole at
Nashville. He would again finish twelfth in the standings. Friesen started the
2025 season with a 23rd-place finish at
Daytona. Friesen broke a 72-race drought with a win at
Michigan in triple-
overtime. On July 28, 2025, Friesen was competing in a
Super DIRTcar Series event at the Autodrome Drummond when he suffered a high-speed accident that resulted in a fractured pelvis and right leg. Friesen was forced to sit-out the remainder of the season due to the injuries he suffered.
Christopher Bell filled in for him at
Watkins Glen, and
Kaden Honeycutt, who had just been released from his ride at
Niece Motorsports, would drive for the final eight races, starting at
Richmond. After a quick return to racing, Friesen won his 100th race at Fonda Speedway in April 2026. ==Personal life==