Frankie Muniz shares truth about funding | Sports News

Malcolm within the Middle star turned NASCAR driver Frankie Muniz, who not too long ago participated within the Mustang Challenge Le Mans Invitational, has no intention of spending any of his Hollywood earnings on his racing profession.

Currently within the center of a powerful Craftsman Truck Series season with Reaume Brothers Racing, driving the No. 33 Ford, Muniz has not too long ago opened up on the financial difficulties related together with his newfound profession, while taking the chance to shoot down recommendations he’s funding this ardour project off the back of his silver screen success.

“I don’t spend any of my money going racing,” the 39-year-old advised the LA Times. “I made a promise to my wife (Paige) that I would not do that. So, I can kill that rumor right there.”

With none of Muniz’s personal money funding his truck for the 12 months, which has an estimated price of $3.5 million for a 25-race season, he’s needed to depend on sponsorships similar to the remainder of the sector. Unsurprisingly, this side of racing is one Muniz has admitted to disliking in a current look on the Beating and Banging podcast.

“It is so hard,” Muniz admitted. “And I said, I don’t like tooting my own horn, but like, I have a lot of social media followers. I was on TV. I do get press and things and, like, I’m doing a cover shoot right now for a huge nationwide national syndicated magazine. And I get things, or attention, that because I was on TV that other drivers don’t get. I don’t know how other people sell. That’s the truth, because it is so hard.”

“Can we raise more money? Absolutely. Do I want to raise more money? Absolutely,” he mentioned. “Because if we have more as a team together, like collectively makes us better. And if you’re competing against teams that are spending in the Truck Series, $3 to $5 million, I don’t know, crazy numbers, like $3 million, and you’re spending $1, $5, $2 million, it’s hard to compete. You know what I mean?

“That’s just the truth. Money does equate to speed usually. So there’s also the fine line of like, you’ve got to start building, like we have 10 races left. We’ve got races open…

“We can sell more races, but then you’ve got to start going like, well, we need to be focused on next year. People’s budgets or our company’s budgets for 2026 are closing by the end of this quarter. Then when you start asking for money in November, December, January, we’ve already allotted where we’re putting our money. So you’ve got to be so far ahead of the game, but it’s probably my least favorite part.”

With 16 races accomplished and 9 to go this season, Muniz has up to now completed within the prime 20 on three events, together with his best outcome coming at Daytona within the season opener the place he crossed the road in tenth for the crew’s second best outcome of the 12 months behind Jason White’s eighth locations end that very same day within the No. 22.

Now, following a twenty seventh place end on the TSport 200 on Friday, leaving him twenty fourth within the drivers standings, Muniz will flip his consideration to the difficult street course at Watkins Glen on August 8.