Malcolm In the Middle' Star Frankie Muniz: 'Amazing' to Get 1st Top-10 NASCAR Finish

Former “Malcolm in the Middle” star Frankie Muniz told TMZ Sports it felt “amazing” to get the first top-10 finish of his NASCAR career.

"Obviously, to get a top 10 is something that I had really hoped as a goal for this season, and to do it in the first race, it just re-motivates to keep going for more,” Muniz told TMZ Sports.

Muniz was originally granted an 11th-place finish on Feb. 14 in his full-time professional debut at the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season opener in Daytona.

The disqualification of Parker Kligerman allowed him to move up the standings and claim the first top-ten finish of his NASCAR career.

Muniz began racing in 2004 and drove in his first professional race in 2006. He announced last October he would become a full-time driver of the No. 33 F-150 during the 2025 Truck Series.

He told NBC Sports' Logan Reardon earlier this month that his goal for his first full-time professional season was a top-20 finish in the field of 36 drivers.

"Anybody in the top 20 in points in the Truck Series is phenomenal and has a chance to win those races. So, my goal is to be in the top 20," Muniz told Reardon. "That would be a really good goal for us and for me."

Last Friday's 10th-place finish took Muniz one step closer to that goal despite marking his first DNF of the season after crashing out on Saturday in Atlanta.