Ford Racing NASCAR: Frankie Muniz Bristol Truck Race Accident Quotes

FRANKIE MUNIZ, No. 33 Malcolm in the Middle Ford F-150 – WHAT HAPPENED?  “I don’t know.  I actually thought we were running pretty good for us here.  I felt pretty quick.  We were in the lucky dog position, so I was just trying to do some good lap times.  I think there was like 10 to go in the stage and I think the 91, or whoever was leading, had a few lappers between the next guy, so we thought we could get the lucky dog and get back on the lead lap for the last stage.  But I felt really racy.  We literally talked about when we get in a position where if the fast guys catch us to show bottom so they know I’m always gonna go on the bottom to make them pass me on the top.  That’s what I did on every single lap and everybody from first to 13th got by me figuring it out on the top, but the 42, I think, Tyler Reif just maybe got impatient.  He’s yelling at me in there saying I’m a lapper and I shouldn’t be racing him, but I’m in the lucky dog position.  I’m fighting.  I belong on that racetrack just as much as he does, just as much as the leaders do and I’m not gonna back down on that.  I haven’t seen a replay, but based on what I felt I went to the middle of the track at the end of the track all the way out to show that I was gonna go back to the bottom and the next thing I know I’m destroying a truck.” THE IRONY OF PROMOTING THE NEW SERIES AND GOING OUT LIKE THIS.  WHAT IS YOUR REACTION?  “Hopefully it got TV time.  Hopefully people are gonna watch the Malcolm in the Middle reboot right after this race.  It’s never the result you want, especially when I felt like we were pretty good here.  It’s so easy to go a lap down here.  It’s a 15-second lap, but the fact that we were at lap 100-something and we were still in the hunt, we could have gotten back on the lead lap, so I felt pretty good – especially after a week like last week at Rockingham.  We were not in it at all, so it feels good when you’re competitive and battling and I’m pushing people out of the way and we’re racing.  That’s what I need, but this is my third time at Bristol and I’ve never made it past lap 100, which I guess looks bad on me, but I don’t know.  I thought we were really good here today for me and for the team.  It’s unfortunate.” YOU CRUNCHED UP YOUR FACE ON THE TRUCK.  “My face!  They were like, ‘Don’t crash.’  I was like, ‘If I do, it’ll be spectacular,’ and it was (laughing).” Ford Racing PR