Frankie Muniz Crashes ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ NASCAR Truck During Bristol Race: “Not Going To Back Down”
Hours after Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair debuted on Hulu, Frankie Muniz walked away from a crash at his other job. On Friday, the actor and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series racer was involved in wreck with Tyler Reif and Timmy Hill on the Bristol Motor Speedway, damaging his Malcolm in the Middle themed Ford F-150 and taking him out of the race. More from Deadline Frankie Muniz’s Family Made Him Realize Similarities To ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Role After 20 Years: “You Weren’t Acting At All” ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ Reboot Wraps After Frankie Muniz “Proudly” Returns To Acting 'Malcolm In The Middle' Revival Star Caleb Ellsworth-Clark On Replacing Dewey: "Didn't Want To F*ck That Up" “I actually thought we were running pretty good,” Muniz told Fox Sports.
“I felt pretty quick. We 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.
” After the crash, Muniz said Reif was “yelling at me in there saying I’m a lapper, like I shouldn’t be racing. I’m in the lucky dog position. ” Muniz added, “I’m fighting.
I belong on that racetrack just as much as he does, just as much as the leaders do. And I’m not going to back down on that. I haven’t seen a replay, but based on what I felt, I went to the middle of track.
I didn’t track all the way out to show that I was going to go back to the bottom. ” Frankie Muniz reprises his lead role in ‘Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair’ David Bukach/Disney Stepping back from acting to pursue racing in 2008, Muniz recently reprised his title role in Hulu’s Malcolm in the Middle revival, all four episodes of which debuted Friday on the streamer. “Obviously right now, I’m pursuing racing full-time , and a lot of that has to do with the fact that when I dive into something, I go 100%,” Muniz explained to Deadline.