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Stewart Friesen Hopes To Right the Ship On 2019 Misfortune This Weekend With the Short Track Super Series

NEW EGYPT, NJ – A quick glance at the Bob Hilbert
Sportswear Short Track Super Series (STSS) Fueled By Sunoco all-time win list
says it all.

The STSS has
been very good to Stewart Friesen.

The Sprakers,
N.Y., driver has won 13 STSS events, nearly double his closest rivals in series
history.

Friesen hopes
to ‘right the ship’ on his 2019 season this weekend when he competes with the
series at New Egypt Speedway Thursday night (May 23) for the ‘Dirty Jersey 6’
and battles for glory in the ‘Lightning on the Mountain’ at Thunder Mountain
Speedway in Center Lisle, N.Y., Sunday (May 26).

The Halmar
International No. 44 kicked off the season in Victory Lane at Georgetown (Del.)
Speedway for the Melvin L. Joseph Memorial in mid-March. Since then, Lady Luck
has not shined on Friesen.

He was leading the STSS stop at Pa.’s Port Royal Speedway when power steering issues surfaced. During an unsanctioned event at N.Y.’s Five Mile Point Speedway, a broken suspension piece took him out of the lead. A scrape with the inside barrier while racing toward the front at Delaware International Speedway in the ‘Diamond State 50’ led to a DNF.

And this past
Saturday while leading the feature at Fonda (N.Y.) Speedway, Friesen was
sidelined when he lost oil pressure – this, after missing the Fonda program on
May 4 when his race trailer broke down in northern Delaware.

Possibly the
most heartbreaking of all was the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series event at
Kansas when a potential breakthrough win was nixed three laps from the finish,
out of fuel.

On Thursday,
Friesen returns to New Egypt with a clean slate and a positive outlook for the
40-lap, $6,000-to-win big-block/small-block Modified event, Race No. 4 of the Velocita-USA
South Region presented by Design for Vision and Sunglass Central.

“It’s just
the way luck goes sometimes,� Friesen said of his misfortunes. “I can’t think
of another year in my career where I’ve had a stretch like this. We will race
our way out of it. The one thing I am happy about is we’ve had fast cars. We’re
right there; we just need things to go our way.�

Friesen
actually founded the ‘Dirty Jersey’ event at New Egypt with STSS organizer
Brett Deyo in 2013. As Friesen’s career and One Zee Tees business grew, he
stepped away from co-promoting the event.

While he has
won at nine different tracks with the Short Track Super Series, Friesen is seeking
his first STSS triumph at New Egypt. He has, however, won at the Garden State
facility before in special Modified events.

Friesen is a
past STSS winner at Thunder Mountain and also owns a 360 Sprint Car victory at
the three-eighths-mile oval.

For complete ‘Dirty
Jersey’ information, click the following link: https://shorttracksuperseries.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/DirtyJerseyInformationSheet.pdf

‘Lightning on
the Mountain’ information is available here: https://shorttracksuperseries.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LightningontheMountainGeneralInfoSheet.pdf

To learn more about the 2019 Short
Track Super Series Fueled By Sunoco, visit   e-mail www.shorttracksuperseries.com,
by e-mail at bdmotorsportsmedia@gmail.com,
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The Short Track Super Series is presented by American Racer/Lias
Tire, Sunoco Race Fuel, Insinger Performance, Bob Hilbert Sportswear, Halmar
International, Velocita-USA, Design for Vision/Sunglass Central, Rob Sherlock
Roofing, ATL Racing Fuel Cells, Behrent’s Performance Warehouse, Beyea Custom
Headers, Bicknell Racing Products, Dirt Track Digest, EIBACH Springs, Escape
RV, Fast Axle, Fox Racing Shocks, Henry’s Exhaust, Hig Fab, HyperCo, Kirkey
Racing Fabrication, Land Hoe Maintenance, K&N, MJK Home Maintenance,
Precision Hydraulic & Oil, QA1, Racing Optics, Superior Remodeling, Teo-Pro
Car, VAHLCO, Velocita, WELD Racing & Wilwood.

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