Frankie Muniz, who was sidelined for the last four NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races due to a distal radius fracture of his wrist suffered in a fall at his home after the race at Richmond in August, is set to return to the track this weekend at Talladega Superspeedway.
Muniz, an actor/racer who has been competing in his rookie season in the series, will slide back behind the wheel of the No. 33 Reaume Brothers Racing Ford F-150, the truck that he notched a top-10 result in the opening race of the season at Daytona International Speedway.
Talladega, like Daytona, is a drafting track, where Muniz should have a fair shot at a decent return, provided he can avoid the inevitable ‘Big One’ that tends to occur at the 2.66-mile facility.
Muniz, 39, the star of the former FOX hit sitcom Malcom in the Middle, is excited for what lies ahead this weekend.
“Thrilled to be back in the truck this weekend,” Muniz said to TobyChristie.com, “glad it’s Talladega because we had a super-fast truck at Daytona. I expect that this will be a strong weekend for our group.”
While it had been a trying rookie campaign for Muniz following the top-10 in the season-opening race, the driver found a glimmer of hope with a top-15 run at Michigan International Speedway. However, a few races after the 14th-place run, Muniz suffered a wrist injury, which sidelined him.
For the three-truck Reaume Brothers Racing team, it’ll be a complete run-back of the three-driver squad that performed so well at Daytona in February.
Canadian racer Jason White, who snagged an eighth-place finish in the season-opening race, will reprise his role as the driver of the No. 22 Ford F-150 for the team, in what will be his second start of the 2025 campaign.
White, who was extremely elated that the pre-race strategy discussed by the teammates played out with two top-10 results at Daytona, is pumped to have another shot at glory in the NASCAR Truck Series this weekend.
“I am excited to finish out the year strong on the superspeedways this weekend. After a strong run at Daytona, we feel like we have more left in the tank, and this group is hungry for more,” White said in a team press release.
Josh Reaume, the team owner of the Reaume Brothers Racing team, will fill out the driver roster for the organization this weekend, as he’ll drive the No. 2 Ford F-150. Reaume, who scored a sixth-place finish for Reaume Brothers Racing at Daytona International Speedway in 2019, was in the mix with his teammates for a top-10 result at Daytona in February, but as the pack became wildly unpredictable in the closing laps, Reaume opted to bail his truck out of the fight in an effort to hedge his bets incase a massive last-lap crash destroyed the team’s other two trucks.
A last-lap crash did take place in Daytona, and swept up Muniz, but the crash happened at the finish line, which allowed Muniz to finish 10th, while Reaume came home with an 18th-place finish.
With the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series expected to have changes to the layout of the bodies and chassis of the trucks next season, perhaps the Reaume team can go for broke with this being the final superspeedway race of the 2025 season.
