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Frankie Muniz is telling followers that he’s “okay” after a scary multi-vehicle pile-up in his newest NASCAR race left him limping to an ambulance off the monitor.
The crash, termed a “exhausting hit” by sports activities reporter Noah Lewis on X, occurred Friday, November 8, on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection Championship Race in Phoenix. Video reveals Muniz in obvious ache and limping away from the wreckage, then being assisted into an ambulance.
Nonetheless, talking to reporters following the race, Muniz assured that he was superb. “I’m okay, yeah,” he famous, calling the incident on monitor “unlucky.”
“I felt like bought a superb alternative to run with some guys, I made some passes. Misplaced a number of spots on restarts, then went again out and handed them once more,” he stated of his racing method. “So it was good for me to determine learn how to get by individuals. You recognize, I haven’t actually gotten to try this a lot this yr in order that was actually optimistic.”
Arduous hit for @frankiemuniz. He limps from his truck to the ambulance. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/7rngEwzMzE
— Noah Lewis (@Noah_Lewis1) November 9, 2024
Muniz, 38. finest recognized for his titular function within the sitcom Malcolm within the Center and who has been performing since he was a child, first broke into automotive racing in 2004 throughout a celeb occasion. Two years later, he made his skilled racing debut. He collected one top-five end and 11 top-ten finishes within the ARCA Menards Collection in 2023. After totaling all his factors for the yr, Muniz completed in fourth place.
Final month, the actor revealed that he deliberate to make race automotive driving his principal gig. “I’m extraordinarily excited to announce that I shall be racing full time subsequent season within the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection,” Muniz, 38, introduced in the course of the Fox & Associates broadcast on October 22.
Muniz famous on the time that it wasn’t a “exhausting choice” to show his concentrate on racing as a substitute of performing.
“That is one thing that I’ve been working [toward] for actually 20 years once I did my first race,” Muniz stated of racing. “That feeling of crossing the end line first in that pro-celebrity race, was an unbelievable, unbelievable feeling and I’ve been chasing that.”
He famous, “If I’m going to do that, I need to dedicate myself to it one hundred pc. I’m doing every thing I can to be ready for the races and be the perfect race automotive driver I could be.”
Along with performing and now racing, Muniz is a devoted husband and father. He married Paige Value in October 2019. The couple welcomed their son, Mauz, in March 2021.
Muniz’s function as a father has solely added to his want to race over performing. “A whole lot of the explanation why I went again [to] racing [was] as a result of I wished him to develop up really seeing me work exhausting and try for a objective and never simply be like, ‘Oh, I was this actor,’” he completely instructed Us Weekly earlier this month.