Frankie Muniz gives 'black and white' reason why race car driving is more fulfilling than being Hollywood star

Though it's been respective years since Frankie Muniz said goodbye to his beingness successful Los Angeles and made the prime to prosecute a antithetic career, the erstwhile kid prima has nary regrets.

After wrapping up the deed sitcom "Malcolm successful the Middle" successful 2006, Muniz, present 38, took a hiatus from acting to absorption connected nonrecreational contention car driving — a determination helium tells Fox News Digital exclusively that he's ne'er looked backmost on. 

"As an actor, like, I've been fortunate to bash a batch of large things and radical archer me, ‘I emotion your show, oregon I emotion this oregon emotion that,’ but, you know, it's each based connected opinion," helium said. "I could amusement up to enactment arsenic an histrion and dedicate my beingness to the relation and consciousness similar I did the champion occupation ever. And past radical spot it and go, 'Yeah, it was okay. I didn't similar it.' Where, arsenic a contention car driver, it's not subjective. It's successful achromatic and white. You either triumph and you're the fastest oregon you're slow."

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Frankie Muniz near Hollywood successful 2008. (Getty Images)

"I was truly benignant of thrown disconnected the heavy end, but that's however I similar to bash things," Muniz added astir his vocation shift. "When I bash something, I similar to perpetrate fully, right? I mean, radical go, ‘What are your hobbies?’ I don't person hobbies. I privation to beryllium the champion astatine immoderate it is I do. And if I can't dedicate the clip and effort to bash that, I conscionable won't bash it. I don't privation to beryllium mediocre. That's not fun."

Muniz, who has precocious partnered with Spirit Airlines to beforehand their caller #NotInTheMiddle 'Go Comfy' question option, competed successful the Formula BMW USA Championship successful 2006 and past raced successful the ChampCar Atlantic Championship from 2007 to 2009. In 2009, Muniz was 4th successful the title standings. He had 2 races to spell earlier a season-ending wounded resulted successful aggregate surgeries. He returned to racing successful 2021 and presently competes part-time successful assorted races. 

Despite his newfound emotion of racing, Muniz said helium inactive misses aspects of his erstwhile vocation successful acting.

"When ‘Malcolm’ ended successful 2006, that was the twelvemonth that I started racing professionally. And astatine that time, I was like, 'I don't attraction what it is. I don't attraction what connection it is. I don't attraction however overmuch wealth it is, don't telephone me. I'm going racing. I privation to focus.' If I'm competing against the champion drivers successful the world, I've got to dedicate my beingness to that. I deliberation I needed that conscionable to person a greater appreciation present for what I did erstwhile I was younger."

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Frankie and woman Paige stock a 3-year-old lad together. (Getty Images)

"Now erstwhile I bash projects, I person that mindset of like, truly putting my each into it," helium continued. "I conscionable privation it to beryllium a affirmative acquisition for everybody. I bash miss it."

"I did a movie past twelvemonth … and that was astir apt 1 of the astir hard roles I ever played," helium continued. "But I loved each infinitesimal of it. When I was connected set, adjacent though I'm inactive dedicated to racing and that's my absorption close now, it deed maine that I went, ‘Wow, I could bash this more.’ So we'll spot what happens successful the future. But close now, you know, the absorption evidently is racing 1 100 percent."

In summation to racing, Muniz has gotten attraction for his determination to permission Los Angeles down – and for his captious comments astir the city.

The erstwhile kid prima is present a nonrecreational contention car driver. (Getty Images)

On Sept. 10, Muniz took to societal media to stock his disdain for the City of Angels, writing, "I landed successful Los Angeles 23 minutes agone and I'm already disgusted by this hellhole hole."

The tweet, which gained astir 150k likes and 14.4 cardinal views, received mixed reactions connected societal media, with immoderate agreeing with him wholeheartedly and others criticizing his quick-to-judge remark. 

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"I conscionable cognize that I don't similar that city. It's truthful large erstwhile you person a preconceived representation successful your caput of what it's going to be," Muniz told Fox News Digital. "But, literally, I was inactive astatine the airdrome and the airdrome is not acceptable up easily. They marque everything truthful hard, you know? And I was like, this is what I'm talking about."

"I said it benignant of vaguely," helium added. "I tweeted it. I did it. It benignant of went a small viral. And I had a batch of radical who hold with maine and batch of radical who were hating connected maine for saying I didn't similar Los Angeles."

Muniz — who presently lives successful Scottsdale, Arizona with woman Paige Price and their 3-year-old son — said helium finds it humorous erstwhile radical instrumentality discourtesy to his thoughts connected LA due to the fact that helium knows firsthand what it's similar to unrecorded and enactment there. 

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"I've been fortunate to get to unrecorded successful a batch of places. So I find it comic that radical who mightiness unrecorded successful Los Angeles, who are offended by my comment," helium said. "I lived there. Like I'm not conscionable guessing. I cognize what beingness was similar there, and I cognize what beingness is similar [in Arizona]. And I'm not saying this is better, I'm conscionable saying I don't similar this one."

Muniz has been unfastened astir his "hate" for Los Angeles and says helium prefers his quiescent beingness successful Arizona. (Jeffrey Vest/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"I request space," helium added. "I request the desert. That's wherever I'm expected to be."

Because helium travels each implicit the state for assorted races, Muniz said helium was "thrilled" to spouse with Spirit Airlines, who is giving distant 10 pairs of Go Comfy tickets successful #NotInTheMiddle societal media giveaway.

Muniz precocious partnered with Spirit Airlines for their #NotInTheMiddle societal media campaign. (Spirit Airlines)

"With my racing and everything I'm doing lately, I've done 529,000 hose miles this twelvemonth alone," helium said. "I'm fundamentally surviving successful an airdrome and connected an airplane."

"I don't deliberation determination was a amended idiosyncratic to benignant of dispersed that connection of the excitement of not having to beryllium stuck successful the mediate past than me," Muniz said of the caller question feature, which offers accrued comfortableness and abstraction with a guaranteed blocked mediate seat, arsenic good arsenic 1 checked and 1 carry-on bag, precedence boarding, and a snack and non-alcoholic beverage.

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