{"id":218593,"date":"2025-10-17T01:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218593\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:04:07","slug":"frankie-muniz-shows-true-colors-with-painful-verdict-on-absence-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218593\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz shows true colors with ‘painful’ verdict on absence – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series<\/a> season has been a tough one for Hollywood<\/a> star turned driver Frankie Muniz. Following a bright start to the year with a 10th-place finish at Daytona, the 39-year-old has largely struggled to crack the top 20 in his No. 33 Reaume Brothers Racing Ford, suffering a variety of mechanical issues<\/a> before his season came to an abrupt halt in August.<\/p>\n

Muniz revealed in a post on social media that he had suffered a broken wrist while replacing the batteries in a Ring camera<\/a> at his home. This subsequently ruled him out of the following four races, with RBR bringing in Mason Maggio and Tyler Tomassi to take his place.<\/p>\n

Thankfully for the ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ star, he has made his long-awaited return to pit road, having been given the all-clear by his doctor<\/a>. Speaking to Bob Pockrass<\/a> ahead of the Love\u2019s RV Stop 225, Muniz admitted that \u201cIt was really weird to watch on TV because I’ve never really watched a Truck Race live obviously, since I’ve been in the Truck Series, and kind of painful to have to watch but at the same time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to heal up and excited to be back for the last three, and just keep fighting for sure.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Muniz went on to note that had he been in a battle for the championship, he may have considered returning sooner and battling through the pain. But given his situation, down in 24th in the driver\u2019s standings prior to his injury, his priority was to ensure he made a full recovery and avoided further damage.<\/p>\n

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As he joked, 2025 has \u201cbeen an adventurous year for sure,\u201d adding that his RBR team \u201chad a fair share of bad luck, but let’s just say I’m hoping just to get all the bad luck out of it this year and hopefully next year we’ll have smooth sailing.\u201d<\/p>\n

This comment could prove telling as, aside from a select trio, none of the drivers for the 2026 Truck Series have yet to be confirmed, including RBR\u2019s No. 33. The latest driver to have been confirmed was Brenden Queen, who will become the first Ram driver since 2012 when it returns to the grid next season with Kaulig Racing.<\/p>\n

Should Muniz\u2019s future lie elsewhere, don\u2019t expect him to hang up his race suit just yet as, in an interview with the LA Times, made it clear that he maintains major aspirations in the sport.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf I wanted to go racing for fun. I would not be racing in the Truck Series,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d be racing at my local track or I\u2019d be racing some SCCA club events. I want to be one of the top drivers there are.<\/p>\n

“I want to make it as high up in NASCAR as I can. And I\u2019m doing everything I can to do that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season has been a tough one for Hollywood star turned driver Frankie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,60447,104314,2332,634,18241,102415,82],"class_list":["post-218593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-frankie-muniz","tag-injury-recovery","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-craftsman-truck-series","tag-reaume-brothers-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}