Michael Fassbender does, as does Patrick Dempsey and now Frankie Muniz too: The main actor from the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is seriously getting into motorsport. The Malcolm star has announced that he will try his hand at racing for a full season this year. With it Muniz realizes a lifelong dreamwhich started 20 years ago.
The Malcolm in the Middle star is fascinated by the dangerous sport
The 37-year-old rose to fame as a child star, starring in Malcolm in the Middle between 2000 and 2006 and appearing in the Agent Cody Banks series. But that The heart of Muniz beats for motorsport. From 2004 he took part regularly as an amateur in car races in the United States and in the following years gained experience in a wide variety of racing series. That was one of the reasons that Muniz began appearing less frequently in film and television after the end of Malcolm in the Middle.
On Wednesday, the American proudly announced the next step in his career. In a social media post, he revealed that he is now becoming a full-time racer:
I’m finally making my dream a reality. This is for my son and to show him that you can always follow your dreams.
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In which racing series does the ex-sitcom star drive?
Muniz will be this year as Full-time driver in the ARCA National Series Championship compete for the Rette Jones Racing team. In January he had prepared for this in a test on the legendary Daytona race track.
In the racing series with Touring cars on different track types driven, including the particularly fast ovals. It serves as a stepping stone to get into the next higher series like the NASCAR Xfinitiy and eventually the NASCAR Cup Series, the premier league of touring cars in the US. So in the future, think of Frankie Muniz as a kind of Ricky Bobby.
Where you last saw Frankie Muniz
Disney
Malcolm in the Middle
We can certainly applaud Muniz for his persistence. In it, he recalls fellow actor Michael Fassbender, who drove in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time last year, and Grey’s Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey, who has also gained Le Mans experience and is now a partner in a racing team.
On the other hand, if you want to see Frankie Muniz as an actor, you can watch individual episodes of New Amsterdam or The Rookie or watch the 2018 horror film The Black String * repeat. He even played the lead role in it.
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