Frankie Muniz Says 6-Week Nightmare Hit Rock Bottom Amid Divorce

Q: How did Frankie Muniz secure a major GT4 racing victory while secretly battling a personal nightmare behind closed doors?

Frankie Muniz secured the GT4 breakthrough by compartmentalizing a severe personal crisis and leaning on his team at exactly the right moment. While privately enduring what he later described as the “worst” weeks of his life and a “nightmare” tied to the collapse of his marriage to Paige Price, Muniz still showed up at Road America and focused on race execution. Driving the No. 30 TechSport Racing Ford Mustang GT4 with co-driver Tyler Stone, he helped put the car in position before Stone made the decisive late pass and held on to win the Am class in the GT4 America Series on Aug. 28. Muniz made clear after the race that the victory came while he was emotionally depleted. He said he had arrived at the track “really low” and had been “pretty low” in the prior weeks, but called the win a needed lift. He credited God, Ford, TechSport Racing and Stone, and Stone in turn credited Muniz for helping set up the result. The win mattered beyond the standings because it was Muniz’s first major professional GT4 victory after years of pursuing racing full-time following his acting career. The team then followed it with another Am-class win the next day, completing a weekend sweep. So the answer is that Muniz won not because the turmoil disappeared, but because he channeled it into competition, relied on Tyler Stone and TechSport Racing, and found a rare emotional release in a long-sought victory at Road America.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 20

Frankie Muniz said on Instagram that the past six weeks have been a "nightmare," leaving him at "rock bottom" as he begins what he called necessary self-reflection and personal work.
The post comes amid his divorce from Paige Price, which the couple announced in July after a private separation; they said they would remain close friends, co-parents and business partners in Muniz Racing.
Paige Price posted her own cryptic Instagram messages about "perspective" and doing "the hard thing," though neither side explained what specifically prompted the latest posts.
The estranged couple later appeared together with their 5-year-old son, Mauz, at a family outing, underscoring their stated plan to keep co-parenting despite the split.