Frankie Muniz, looking to turn star power into horsepower, will go full-time racing next year in NASCAR’s Truck Series.
The actor, best known for his starring role in the former sitcom, “Malcolm in the Middle,” will drive the No. 33 Ford F-150 for Reaume Brothers Racing.
Muniz, who turns 39 in December, has run a limited schedule this season — two starts each in the Xfinity, Truck and ARCA series, with a best finish of ninth in the Talladega ARCA race.
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Last year, he raced all 20 events in ARCA, posting 11 top-10 finishes and finishing fourth in the season-long points standings.
Frankie Muniz caught racing bug in 2004; not in NASCAR
Muniz is a contracted racer with Ford Performance. His racing interest began to unfold in 2004 when he raced in the annual Pro/Celebrity event in Long Beach. He raced in a variety of professional and amateur circuits the rest of that decade, and it wasn’t until 2021 that he began racing in stock-car events.
As an actor, he’s best known for his lead role in the “Malcolm” series, which ran from 2000-2006.
Reaume Racing, in its seventh NASCAR season, fields one full-time and one part-time entry in the Truck Series. Lawless Alan drives the full-time truck. His lone top-10 finish in 20 starts came earlier this month at Talladega, where he finished fifth.
This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Frankie Muniz, TV’s Malcolm, gets NASCAR gig for 2025, in a truck
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