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Frankie Muniz goes all in on race automotive driving — and leaving appearing on the again burner — come 2025.
“I’m extraordinarily excited to announce that I might be racing full time subsequent season within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection,” Muniz, 38, introduced in the course of the Fox & Associates broadcast on Tuesday, October 22.
The Malcolm within the Center alum revealed that he’ll be driving the No. 33 automotive for Reaume Brothers Racing in a Ford F-150 truck. “It’s a dream come true. It’s one thing that I’ve all the time needed to do,” he gushed. “I’m thrilled. I can’t wait.”
Muniz, who has been appearing since he was a child, broke into racing in 2004 throughout a star occasion. Two years later, he made his skilled racing debut. He collected one top-five end and 11 top-ten finishes within the ARCA Menards Collection in 2023. After totaling all his factors for the yr, Muniz completed in fourth place.
“We had numerous success final yr,” Muniz mentioned on Tuesday, explaining why he was able to go full-force within the new yr. “Making the leap as much as the truck collection is an entire different stage. 36 vehicles begin the race, and all 36 drivers are actually, actually good.”
He famous, “If I’m going to do that, I need to dedicate myself to it 100%. I’m doing the whole lot I can to be ready for the races and be the perfect race automotive driver I might be.”
It wasn’t a “laborious choice” for Muniz to show his deal with racing as a substitute of appearing.
“That is one thing that I’ve been working [toward] for actually 20 years after I did my first race,” Muniz mentioned of racing. “That feeling of crossing the end line first in that pro-celebrity race, was an unbelievable, unbelievable feeling and I’ve been chasing that.”
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Along with appearing and now racing, Muniz is a devoted husband and father. He married Paige Value in October 2019. The couple welcomed their son, Mauz, in March 2021.
Muniz’s function as a father has solely added to his need to race over appearing. “A variety of the explanation why I went again [to] racing [was] as a result of I needed him to develop up really seeing me work laborious and try for a objective and never simply be like, ‘Oh, I was this actor,’” he completely instructed Us Weekly earlier this month.
“I needed him to really see me doing one thing,” Muniz mentioned, including that he hopes Mauz may also take pleasure in watching him on TV ultimately. “I hope he’s not embarrassed by the issues that I did in my previous. I hope he thinks it’s cool, however we’ll see.”