“It hit me when I had my son,” Muniz told People. “I want him to grow up seeing me reach for my dreams and work hard for something that I’m passionate about, and the one world where I feel like I still have unfinished business was the racing world. So I’m going to go racing.”

This month, Muniz made his debut at Nascar’s Xfinity Series racing event, where he finished 33rd out of 38 after getting into a multi-car crash, as reported by Sky News.

In an interview on the Nascar news website, he said, “[The crash] was unfortunate because we were trying to be cautious. Unfortunately we’re done early … We didn’t do anything wrong, I just got caught up.”

Muniz added: “I was hoping my Xfinity debut would be better than this. I know I’ve got a long way to go – this is just the beginning.”

Here’s what else Frankie Muniz has been up to lately.

Malcolm in the Middle’s Frankie Muniz is a Nascar driver

Muniz broke into the professional driving scene last year, per People. He described his journey in an interview with the Associated Press: “The only thing I can compare it to is like going to a new school,” he said. “You can feel like you’re the man in one school and when you go to that new school, you’re like, ‘I don’t know anybody. Are people going to welcome me here?’ I have a little bit of that feeling. Like even walking in the garage, I don’t know if people accept me there yet.”

He previously told People that he first “caught the bug of wanting to be a driver” in 2004.

What happened to Frankie Muniz’s acting career?

So what happened to the actor – and why did he drop off the radar? “Having stepped away from the entertainment world, from that business, kind of at the height of my career – like right when Malcolm in the Middle ended – it allowed me to have a greater appreciation for life in general,” he said on Mayim Bialik’s podcast.

“Little things, as dumb as it sounds, like moving to Scottsdale [Arizona] in 2008, I think saved my life,” he shared. “I’m 38. I’ve still never had a sip of alcohol. I’ve never done drugs. I’ve never done anything. I don’t mean that in that sense of like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna go off the deep end’, like so many child actors do. I mean, I realised when I moved here that I started looking up … This is so cheesy but, like, I look at the sky. I look at the trees,” he explained to the host.

Muniz continues to take on some minor acting roles.

Who did Frankie Muniz marry?

Muniz met his then-future wife, Paige, at the annual Frank Sinatra celebrity invitational golf tournament in California in 2016, per People. Paige was working as a golf presenter, attending events and interviewing players. The former child star proposed to his belle in 2018, and they eloped in 2019, before holding an official ceremony the following year.

How many kids does Frankie Muniz have?

Frankie and Paige share a son, Mauz Mosley, born on March 22, 2021. Frankie wrote on Instagram that the birth of his baby boy was “the moment when my life changed forever”.