Actor-turned-racer Frankie Muniz has had an fascinating 2026 season. He has missed a handful of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence races the place he was meant to compete full-time for Reaume within the No. 33 Ford, however he had a reasonably good motive.
Muniz was additionally busy chasing a GT4 America title, which he achieved with co-driver Tyler Stone within the Am Class after a three-win season. Driving the TechSport Racing Ford Mustang, he earned his first skilled racing title after a journey that started twenty years in the past.
However together with his current success in sports activities automotive racing, will we see much less of Muniz in NASCAR going ahead?
Frankie Muniz, Crew Reaume
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“It’s been an incredible journey,” stated Muniz in a Tuesday media availability. “Once I do one thing, I do it totally. Folks all the time ask me what my hobbies are, I don’t have hobbies. Once I do one thing, I wish to do it on the highest stage I can probably do it and attempt to be one of the best. I nonetheless really feel like I’ve a variety of unfinished enterprise within the racing world, particularly within the NASCAR world. It’s such a troublesome sequence. It’s such a troublesome sport. There are such a lot of good drivers, so many good groups, and I really feel like I’ve discovered loads. I really feel like I’m a significantly better racer and driver than I used to be once I got here in, however I’m nonetheless not essentially seeing the outcomes that I count on to see or wish to see.
“So, that’s why I’m not completed but within the NASCAR world. Like I stated earlier, I’ve an incredible relationship with Ford and I’m so grateful to have an incredible producer supporting my racing journey, and so they pushed me this yr to provide the sportscar world a strive as a result of they’ve the Mustang Problem Sequence, the GT4 automotive, the GT3 automotive. They’ve the Hypercar popping out. They’re actually placing an emphasis on their sportscar program and I went over there not realizing what to anticipate and received the championship and received a bunch of races. That felt unimaginable. That’s not one thing I’ve ever completed in my racing profession, like to essentially type of be there and really feel like you possibly can win, and it feels actually good. I’m not gonna lie. That stated, I’m not completed within the NASCAR world.”
Muniz famous that he’s taking “steering from a bunch of locations” as he works on the subsequent steps of his profession, however once more asserted that he “might be racing NASCAR … As of proper now, it’s not essentially full-time, nevertheless it’s not that it received’t be. There’s a variety of shifting items as all the time in the case of everyone’s schedule within the racing world, and we’re ironing it out. I really like Josh (Reaume). I really like my crew and if I’m again within the NASCAR world, it is going to be with them once more, however I do know we wish to show what we’ve been engaged on much more, so we’ll do this, whether or not or not it’s a part-time foundation or full-time, I might be within the NASCAR Truck Sequence subsequent yr in some capability.”
Muniz launched into a profession in inventory automotive racing with ARCA in 2023, later making begins within the NASCAR O’Reilly Sequence and even turning into a full-time driver within the NASCAR Truck Sequence.
It has been a steep studying curve, with highlights together with a prime 5 end within the 2023 ARCA race at Michigan, and a prime ten within the 2025 Truck Sequence season-opener at Daytona.
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