His role in that show earned him an Emmy Award nomination, and two Golden Globe nominations, and the New Jersey-born actor has also starred in films including Agent Cody Banks and Big Fat Liar.
Muniz drove part-time in both the Xfinity and Truck series in 2024, and has also competed in a variety of other motorsports, including the ARCA Menards Series, where in 2023 he achieved 11 top-10 finishes and one top-five.
At 38 years old, the acting superstar may be a little old for a rookie, but his first full-time NASCAR season will come in 2025, when he races with Reaume Brothers Racing in the Craftsman Truck Series.
“I don’t want to say it’s a long time coming, but this has been a dream of mine for forever,” Muniz told PEOPLE about his announcement.
“I started with doing the open wheel route. I thought I was going to go IndyCar, kind of the Formula 1 route, but I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to try NASCAR.
I wanted to do it. I grew up watching NASCAR. I was a huge fan, but it’s not something I necessarily thought that I’d ever get the opportunity to do.”
In July 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the George Floyd riots, Wallace made multiple posts on X (then known as Twitter) condemning former President Donald Trump for promoting hate.
Trump himself attacked Wallace on social media over the driver calling for a ban on confederate flags at races, and alleged that an investigation into noose being found in his garage was a “hoax.”
An FBI investigation found that the noose had been in the garage stall since October 2019, and no crime had been committed.
Later that year, Wallace alleged that he’d been told he was “bringing politics into NASCAR,” in response to his condemnation for Trump.
But Wallace hasn’t made any such posts at all regarding the 2024 election, or any political subject of such a matter via public statements.
