Former TV and movie star Frankie Muniz isn’t your typical 21-year-old. He’ll begin sentences like, “Well, I was buying a NASCAR team ” and blushingly corrects suggestions that he owns three homes by saying he has five.
But after seven seasons of playing the lead in the sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle” and starring as Agent Cody Banks in two films, Muniz has turned his back on acting to race full time in the Atlantic Championship Series, a Champ Car support series, which came to Southern California over weekend for the Toyota Grand Prix of

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