Despite the "unfortunate" crash on Nov. 8, the former actor, 38, said he's looking forward to the upcoming racing season
Frankie Muniz was left limping after his car crashed in a recent NASCAR race.
On Friday, Nov. 8, the professional driver, 38, lost control of his car after getting hit from behind during the Craftsman Truck Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz., according to various reports.
A video shared by sports reporter Noah Lewis on X (formerly Twitter) showed Muniz in apparent pain after the "hard hit."
“I’m okay," the former actor told reporters after the race, per a clip shared on X. “I felt like got a good opportunity to run with some guys, I made some passes. Lost a few spots on restarts, then went back out and passed them again. So it was good for me to figure out how to get by people. You know, I haven’t really gotten to do that much this year so that was really positive."
"We just wanted to keep going, I wanted to keep running. But there was nowhere for me to go, and I got hit from behind," he continued, adding, "But I don’t feel like there was anything I could have done there. That was a luck situation of getting through it, but it’s unfortunate."
Despite the crash, Muniz remains optimistic and said he's "so excited" for next season. "This year wasn’t what we had hoped, but this proved that I can race with guys, I can pass here. We’re gonna be better next year, and I’ve got the whole off-season to prepare. We’re gonna go get it," he said.
In October, it was announced that Muniz would join the Reaume Brothers Racing team for the 2025 season. "I don't want to say it's a long time coming, but this has been a dream of mine for forever," the My Dog Skip star later told.
"I started with doing the open wheel route. I thought I was going to go IndyCar, kind of the Formula 1 route, but I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to try NASCAR," he continued, explaining, "I wanted to do it. I grew up watching NASCAR. I was a huge fan, but it's not something I necessarily thought that I'd ever get the opportunity to do."
The Malcolm in the Middle alum previously told that he first "caught the bug of wanting to be a driver" in 2004 after he won a racing tournament in Long Beach, Calif.
"I have a lot to learn and I know that," Muniz added at the time. "But I'm going in, I'm putting in a hundred percent because I don't wanna look back at this opportunity and go, man, I wish I tried harder."
The Quran - Chapter 'Abasa : 38 - 42
On that Day ˹some˺ faces will be bright,
laughing and rejoicing,
while ˹other˺ faces will be dusty,
cast in gloom—
those are the disbelievers, the ˹wicked˺ sinners.
