Frankie Muniz to race full-time in 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Former kid histrion and “Malcom successful the Middle” prima Frankie Muniz is taking his talents to the way full-time.

Muniz, who besides headlined “Agent Cody Banks” and “Big Fat Liar,” revealed connected Tuesday he’ll beryllium racing successful the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 33 F-150 for the Reaume Brothers Racing team.

“I don’t privation to accidental it’s a agelong clip coming, but this has been a imagination of mine for forever,” helium told PEOPLE.

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Frankie Muniz astatine Nashville Superspeedway successful Lebanon, Tennessee successful July. (Getty)

“I started with doing the unfastened instrumentality route,” helium continued. “I thought I was going to spell IndyCar, benignant of the Formula 1 route, but I ever had successful the backmost of my caput that I wanted to effort NASCAR. … I grew up watching NASCAR. I was a immense fan, but it’s not thing I needfully thought that I’d ever get the accidental to do,”

Muniz recovered fame astatine conscionable 14 years old, starring arsenic the rubric quality successful the beloved household sitcom “Malcom successful the Middle,” which besides starred Bryan Cranston. The amusement ran connected Fox from 2000 to 2006, earning Muniz, present 38, nominations for Emmy and Golden Globe awards.

Shortly aft the show’s wrap, Muniz took a measurement backmost from acting to amended absorption connected racing, an involvement helium began to prosecute successful 2004.

While he’s anxious to footwear disconnected the adjacent limb of his beingness and is “focusing connected being a racecar driver,” Muniz said helium hasn’t near acting wholly successful the rearview.

“I anticipation to conscionable beryllium to radical that I tin bash both,” helium told People. “That’s each I tin do.”