Muncie Dragway
ActiveActive Still racing today.
Also known as Muncie Mid-America Dragway; Muncie International Raceway
Scott and Dawn Daniels offered Muncie Dragway for sale in June 2026, with racing continuing while a buyer was sought.
- Hosted the IHRA World Record Championship Drag Races with a $20,000 purse in July 1973
- Mickey Thompson and Chris Karamesines raced there on October 8, 1961
- Raced
- 1960-present
- State
- Indiana
- First race
- July 3, 1960
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Asphalt with concrete launch
- Address
- 7901 IN-28
Albany, IN 47320 - People
- Jerry Runyon, owner (until 1979)
- Dr. Ross Egger, owner (1979-)
- Norman Day, owner (1979-)
- Sanction
- IHRA
- Elevation
- 928 ft (283 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.28764, -85.29402
- Contact
- munciedragway.com (765) 789-8470
Big races
IHRA Ironman Classic
An IHRA Summit SuperSeries race paying out IHRA Ironman trophies, often run with a big Saturday bracket program.
IHRA Division 5 Team Finals
The IHRA divisional finals that qualify racers for the Summit SuperSeries World Finals.
Muscle Car Spectacular / Pro Street Invasion
A muscle car and pro street gathering with racing at the strip.
Trip 12s and Night of Fire
Box and no-box bracket weekends plus Night of Fire shows with jet cars, wheelstanders and fireworks.
Back to the Streets
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
Nostalgia Nights
A drag-and-drive: racers drive their street cars from track to track over several days and race at each stop.
History
One drag racing database wrongly gives 1959 as the opening year. Hot Rod’s August 1960 issue and the Muncie Evening Press both gave the opening date as July 3, 1960, which is correct. The track is on Highway 67 six miles northeast of Muncie. Larry Miller held the strip record at 164 mph before June 1961. On October 8, 1961, Mickey Thompson and Chris Karamesines were among the featured racers, and match racers were booked regularly through the 1960s to bring in crowds. In summer 1963 it raced every Saturday night. NHRA sanctioned it in the 1960s, and it moved to IHRA in the early 1970s, when it was called Muncie Mid-America Dragway. It hosted the IHRA World Record Championship Drag Races, with a $20,000 purse, on July 21-22, 1973. In late 1979 Jerry Runyon sold the track to Dr. Ross Egger and Norman Day, who renamed it Muncie International Raceway, stayed with IHRA and made a number of improvements, including a big concrete starting pad. It joined NHRA again in 2007 and returned to IHRA in 2017, which it runs under today as an eighth-mile track.
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