Frankie Muniz bemoans bad luck in NASCAR Truck Series: 'I don't even get to race'

Frankie Muniz made it all of two laps on the track before he had to go behind the wall and exit the NASCAR Truck Series race at Nashville. Muniz hit something on the track that knocked his oil line out of place, and before he knew it, all of the oil in the truck was on the track.

This has been that kind of season for Frankie Muniz. Disappointments around every turn, and not many of them are directly his fault or the fault of his team. A spin here or there, someone else wrecking in front of them and taking them out, and of course, mechanical errors like today.

In the Truck Series garage, Muniz thanked his crew members for working so hard on the truck. They were unable to get it repaired in time to get back to racing. P32 for Muniz and the sixth DNF of the season in only 12 races.

Still, Muniz is trying to stay positive. He just isn’t sure what he has to do to make things right.

“I mean, at this rate, it’s, you can’t, I don’t know what to say,” Frankie Muniz told 5GOATs at the track after leaving his hauler. “I mean, our last eight weeks have been an absolute disaster. And really, none of it has been at the fault of the team, or myself, or anything like, even there. There’s 32 trucks out there. One person hit something that cut the oil line, and it was me, you know what I mean?

“It’s hard. It’s hard to keep our heads in it and stay motivated when like you, I don’t even get to race. Like, I can’t even like, learn I can’t even, and it’s been a lot of that lately. Like us on our own island. Just out there running laps, you know, after an issue happens. That isn’t our fault. Yeah, I’m not trying to make excuses, it just, I can’t.

“You can’t make it up. At this point, you know, I forget that we still have half the season, so I’m trying to keep that in mind that, like, there’s still so much time to like, have some decent results and do some good racing, but I’m definitely, I can’t wait for the July break.

“And we’re still four races away from that. Or for me at least, um four races, three races in Trucks. But I just want that as a reset for all of us. And you know, we can come back stronger because right now I’m showing up just going like, ‘Please let me finish.’ And that’s not the right mentality to have.”

Frankie Muniz really wants that reset on the season. But will it matter? The Truck Series driver has had so many issues this season, and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight. Muniz summed up his experience today and what went through his mind as his oil line spilled fluid all over the track.

“We have nothing to lose at this point,” Muniz lamented. “You know, our season’s kind of done as far as points go, we have no chance to do anything. So, it’s like, well, get to the race and let’s push. Let’s go beat these guys. If we wreck, we wreck, let’s go. So I was looking forward to that. I started pretty aggressively, and I came out of four, and I’m like, ‘Do I have smoke coming out of the back?’ I looked at my oil pressure, it was at zero. We were just done.”