Frankie Muniz has revealed a special livery to honour the Malcolm in the Middle reboot at this weekend\u2019s NASCAR Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n
Malcolm in the Middle originally aired between 2000 and 2006, running for 150 episodes, and marked Frankie Muniz\u2019s breakout role.<\/p>\n
Muniz is a lifelong NASCAR fan and drove the pace car ahead of the 2001 Daytona 500, having met his hero, Dale Earnhardt, while filming an MTV documentary the same weekend.<\/p>\n
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Earnhardt was killed in a crash on the final lap of that year’s Daytona 500.<\/p>\n
Muniz began his own racing career in 2004, competing in single-seaters in the Formula BMW USA series in 2006, before switching to Champ Car in 2007.<\/p>\n
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He later shifted his focus to stock car racing, competing full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series in 2025 with the Reaume Brothers Racing outfit in Ford machinery.<\/p>\n
Muniz also competed on the 24 Hours of Le Mans bill last year in the Mustang Challenge invitational event, in which he achieved two podium finishes.<\/p>\n
Malcolm in the Middle returns this weekend on Disney+ for its Life\u2019s Still Unfair reboot miniseries, with Muniz competing at Bristol in the Truck Series at the same time.<\/p>\n
In tribute, he will race with Malcolm in the Middle livery.<\/p>\n
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He wrote on social media: \u201cOn Friday, 10 April, the Malcolm in the Middle family explodes back onto Hulu on Disney+ with Life\u2019s Still Unfair, and the exact same day, I\u2019m strapping in and driving the Malcolm in the Middle truck at Bristol Motor Speedway!<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy childhood, my chaos, my racing life, all smashing together at 150+ mph on one of the wildest tracks on the planet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a crossover. This is two completely different chapters of my life colliding head-on in the most insane, beautiful, full-send way possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one\u2019s for every fan who grew up on Malcolm and every fan who\u2019s watched me chase this racing dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s make history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Racing commitments forced <\/strong>Malcolm in the Middle<\/strong> filming changes<\/strong><\/p>\n Muniz\u2019s return to Malcolm in the Middle comes alongside many of the original cast from the 2000-2006 run.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n However, his NASCAR commitments forced production to change its filming schedule to allow him to keep racing.<\/p>\n \u201cI would film Sunday through Wednesday, fly Thursday, race Friday, and fly back Saturday,\u201d Muniz said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was exhausting, but I also know how cool it is to have the opportunity to get to do this again, so I wasn\u2019t going to complain at all.<\/p>\n \u201cI am thankful to everybody on the production for working around my NASCAR schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frankie Muniz has revealed a special livery to honour the Malcolm in the Middle reboot at this weekend\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,13189,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-881698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116372987298504491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}