{"id":279947,"date":"2025-11-13T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279947\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T07:54:08","slug":"frankie-muniz-reveals-nascar-career-aspirations-what-he-wants-to-achieve-beyond-truck-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279947\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz reveals NASCAR career aspirations, what he wants to achieve beyond Truck Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frankie Muniz just wrapped up his first season as a full-time driver in the NASCAR Truck Series, and now the question is, what\u2019s next for him? The 39-year-old driver and actor recently appeared on the Stacking Pennies podcast<\/a> and was asked about his career aspirations in NASCAR. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think everybody who\u2019s out there, their dream would be in the Cup Series,\u201d Frankie Muniz said. \u201cI\u2019m realistic in the sense that I know it\u2019s going to be really difficult for me to get there at 40 years old. When I went racing, I really didn\u2019t set a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muniz then talked about the challenges he experienced while competing in ARCA. And when he began competing in the Xfinity Series (now O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series) and the Truck Series, he realized that he \u201cstill had a lot to learn.\u201d <\/p>\n

Muniz also explained why he put himself in the Truck Series full-time. \u201cI feel like if yoy want to race against good guys, you\u2019ve got to race against good guys,\u201d Muniz said. \u201cI can\u2019t keep doing what I was doing that made me feel like I was so much better than I maybe am. I\u2019ve learned a lot this year because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frankie Muniz will star in new Disney+ series next year<\/p>\n

The fact that Muniz competed in the Truck Series the entire season is a success. He missed four races because of an injury, but the Malcolm in the Middle star earned a P10 finish at Daytona to start the year and finished 26th in the standings. <\/p>\n

But how did Muniz, an Emmy Award-nominated actor, get involved in racing? \u201c2004, I got to do the pro celebrity race that Toyota put on in Long Beach,\u201d Muniz said<\/a>. \u201cI won that, and that feeling of crossing the finish line first\u2026 It was something I was like, whoa. And even at that point, I never thought I would be a racecar driver. I loved watching. I was a huge fan of it since I was five years old. I remember waking up and watching NASCAR races and Formula One races and IndyCar races and just loving it.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the NASCAR season over, Muniz will now likely focus on his entertainment career. Next year, Muniz is set to start in the Malcolm in the Middle revival series, Malcolm in the Middle: Let\u2019s Still Unfair, and it will stream on Disney+. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz just wrapped up his first season as a full-time driver in the NASCAR Truck Series, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,60447,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-279947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-frankie-muniz","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279947","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=279947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}