For the first time since the 2022 season, Stewart Friesen is a winner in the Craftsman Truck Series.
The veteran driver from Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, only led two laps, but they were the most important of the race. He passed Grant Enfinger in triple overtime and took the white flag as the leader. He then held off his fellow veteran all the way to the checkered flag.
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Friesen scored the win, his first since Texas Motor Speedway in 2022, while snapping a 72-race winless streak. He also punched his ticket back to the playoffs after missing in both 2023 and '24.
"I don't even know what to say," a breathless Friesen told Fox Sports' Kaitlyn Vincie after climbing the fence in celebration.
"...I know there's a lot of Canadians, there's a lot of Americans (in the stands). Everybody's having a good time together, and that's what it's all about, baby!"
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Enfinger crossed the line in second place. This marked his second runner-up of the season and his first since Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the spring. Luke Fenhaus, Ben Rhodes, and Corey LaJoie rounded out the top five.
"Hat's off to Jeff (Stankiewicz, crew chief) and (spotter) Tim Fedewa," Enfinger said on pit road. "All day, they kept us in the game. We weren't as good as we thought we were in practice, but Jeff kept slinging stuff at it.
"He got gutsy with both of those calls -- the call to stay out and then the call to pit late. Timmy did a great job getting us out of the mess."
The mess that Enfinger referenced was the chaos that ensued in the final stage of Saturday's race. The first two stages ran incident-free as drivers such as Fenhaus, Carson Hocevar, and Corey Heim led laps.
However, six on-track incidents, a debris caution, and a red flag for SAFER barrier repair set up numerous restarts.
One of these incidents, in particular, saw the leaders crashing across the start-finish line on a restart due to the pushes of the drivers behind them. This incident sent the race to the first of three overtime attempts.
The race at Michigan featured 139 laps. The drivers ran 34% of these laps under caution. Contenders saw their dreams of a win disappear due to blown tires and multi-truck wrecks, but Friesen kept his No. 52 Toyota clean and used it to score a very important win.