{"id":43004,"date":"2025-07-28T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43004\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T16:23:07","slug":"nascar-drivers-frankie-muniz-toni-breidinger-bring-new-fans-to-the-sport-of-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43004\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR drivers Frankie Muniz, Toni Breidinger bring new fans to the sport of NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">NASCAR driver Kyle Larson said that having drivers like Frankie Muniz and Toni Breidinger in NASCAR will help everyone in the series because \u201cit will bring in fans and sponsors that might not have been attracted to the sport otherwise,\u201d according to Kevin Baxter of the L.A. TIMES. Also a model, Breidinger sees the two pursuits as \u201cbeing complementary.\u201d When Breidinger appears on a red carpet, as she did before this month\u2019s ESPY Awards in L.A., it \u201chelps her modeling career while at the same time giving the sponsors of her racing team &#8211;which includes 818 Tequila, Dave &amp; Buster\u2019s and the fashion brand Coach &#8212; added value.\u201d Like Muniz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/02\/21\/raising-canes-nascar-toni-breidinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2024\/02\/21\/raising-canes-nascar-toni-breidinger\/\">Breidinger<\/a> sees the truck series, the third tier of NASCAR\u2019s national racing series, as a \u201csteppingstone to a seat in a Cup car.\u201d Larson said that funding, rather than talent and ability, \u201coften determines how fast a driver can make that climb,\u201d and that \u201cmight be a problem\u201d for Muniz since Reaume Brothers Racing owner Josh Reaume has \u201ccomplained about the price of racing.\u201d It can cost \u201cmore than\u201d $3.5M a year to field one competitive truck in the 25-race series &#8212; and that cost is \u201crising, threatening to price many out of the sport.\u201d Larson said of Muniz, \u201cYou want to see him succeed because if he does succeed, it\u2019s only going to do good things for our sport\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2025-07-27\/frankie-muniz-nascar-toni-breidinger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">L.A. TIMES, 7\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver Kyle Larson said that having drivers like Frankie Muniz and Toni Breidinger in NASCAR will help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-43004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}