{"id":597937,"date":"2026-04-11T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597937\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:57:07","slug":"frankie-muniz-crashes-nascar-truck-as-malcolm-in-the-middle-premieres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/597937\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz Crashes NASCAR Truck as Malcolm in the Middle Premieres"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Friday night, Frankie Muniz<\/a> celebrated the premiere of Malcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair<\/a>, a revival series of the show that brought him fame. But hours after it debuted on Hulu and Disney+, Muniz was involved in a crash \u2014 in his Malcolm in the Middle<\/a> decorated race truck. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe NASCAR<\/a>\u00a0Craftsman Truck Series racer\u00a0crashed his F-150 truck in a wreck with Tyler Reif and Timmy Hill at the Bristol Motor Speedway. The incident took Muniz out of the race and damaged the themed vehicle. No serious injuries were reported. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hollywood Reporter reached out to Muniz\u2019s rep for comment and has not yet received a response.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the race, the Agent Cody Banks actor spoke to reporters. \u201cI actually thought we were running pretty good. I felt pretty quick,\u201d he told Fox Sports\u2019 Bob Pockrass<\/a>. \u201cWe were in the lucky dog position, so I was just trying to do some good lap times. I think there was like 10 to go on the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think [Reif] maybe got impatient, I don\u2019t know. He was yelling at me in there, saying I\u2019m a lapper, like I shouldn\u2019t be racing. I\u2019m in the lucky dog position. I\u2019m fighting. I belong on that racetrack just as much as he does, just as much as the leaders do,\u201d Muniz said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to back down on that. I haven\u2019t seen a replay, but based on what I felt, I went to the middle of the track. I didn\u2019t track all the way out to show that I was going to go back to the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original Malcolm in the Middle series ran for seven seasons on Fox from 2000 to 2006. Afterward, the 40-year-old stepped away from acting to pursue a career in racing. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe recently returned for Malcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair<\/a>, a four-episode revival that follows the family 20 years later. Linwood Boomer returned as showrunner. Bryan Cranston, Frankie Muniz, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher Kennedy Masterson, Justin Berfield, Emy Coligado, Keeley Karsten, Vaughan Murrae, Kiana Madeira and Caleb Ellsworth-Clark round out the cast. <\/p>\n

\n\tAll four episodes are now streaming on Hulu and Disney+. <\/p>\n

\n\tSee the Malcolm in the Middle race truck below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday night, Frankie Muniz celebrated the premiere of Malcolm in the Middle: Life\u2019s Still Unfair, a revival…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,60447,65107,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-597937","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-malcolm-in-the-middle","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597937","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=597937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}