Stewart Friesen expects that he’s going to be by himself almost all day on Tuesday. Not a unique experience for anyone during the COVID-19 pandemic, but very different for a driver competing on the NASCAR Trucks circuit.
Friesen will drive himself to Charlotte Motor Speedway, get changed in his vehicle, then go through the driver check-in, before walking through a virtually deserted venue and to his race truck waiting on the grid as the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series restarts with the NC Education Lottery 200. “That’ll be different,” said Friesen, who had driven down to North Carolina last week and had meetings at his team’s garage to come up with a race-day strategy. “We won’t be able to do that the morning of the race like we