NASCAR star provides injury update after | Sports News

Six months faraway from a horrific crash that left NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Stewart Friesen with a damaged proper leg and pelvis, the 42-year-old has recovered and is raring to get back behind the wheel of his No. 52 Halmar Friesen Racing Toyota Tundra.

Four-time Truck Series race winner and group co-owner Friesen crashed whereas competing in a Super DIRTcar Series King of the North race in Quebec, Canada. After sliding into a barrier on the Autodrome Drummond, Friesen’s car was despatched airborne earlier than bursting into flames because it landed.

If this wasn’t enough, having landed on its facet, a competitor then drove instantly into Friesen, sending him but additional down the observe earlier than he lastly got here to a halt.

Cup Series star Christopher Bell crammed within the following race for Friesen earlier than Kaden Honeycutt, who had just lately been let go by Niece Motorsports, took over for the remainder of the season, in the end ending third within the driver’s standings.

But now the experience is Friesen’s as soon as again, just lately telling FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass that he’s “feeling really good” following a latest medical check in Charlotte.

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“I was able to jump into my dirt modifieds and run those a couple weeks ago up in Elkin, and that went well. So we’re looking forward to getting to some real racing in February.”

Friesen could also be back on his toes, however he jokingly admitted that neither marathons nor ballet is in his close to future. Thankfully, he’s “good enough to do what I need to do in the race car, and I was pretty nervous about all that, but the couple tests that we’ve had went really well.

“So it was a long time on crutches and then transitioned to a cane for a couple of weeks, but I started leaving that around the house and losing it places, so I said ‘Okay, screw that.’ I just got to kind of push through it and keep building muscle, and still have some ways to go. But I’m feeling really good.”

Luckily for Friesen, his accidents haven’t required his group to make any main adjustments to his modified racer both, with a seat modification the one change talked about.

“Everything fits really good. We had a pour an insert in the modified when I got hurt, and I think that helped a little bit, but we’ve updated some of that stuff and kind of took some stuff that we do in the truck and applied it to the modified stuff, as far as my seats, just to get a little bit more comfortable,” he defined.

“Not stuff that was needed, but some stuff that obviously we’ve learned going through the safety stuff with NASCAR, and that helped get the modifies just a little bit more comfy and maybe a little safer if you know something happens again.”

Friesen went on so as to add that with regard to his truck, he’ll be “running my same insert I’ve always ran and moved the pedals around just a little bit for a little bit of comfort stuff, that that I probably should have done earlier anyway. But just really paying attention to my driver comfort stuff and what’s available to me, and yeah, we’re just rocking and rolling like always.”

Friesen’s return to the Truck Series will start with the Fresh From Florida 250 at Daytona on Feb. 13, after which he’ll be heading for Hampton, Georgia, for the Fr8 Racing 208 eight days later.