[JMatt]

I live in Indy and have raced and tested a number of times at Muncie in the past year. Staging lanes are new pavement. There is no grass strip between the lanes until the 1/8th mile now. Return road is narrow - but brand new pavement. The pit area closest to the starting line is grass parking, but asphalt lanes. Towards the top end of the track the pit parking is grass and the lanes are gravel. During a three day race over 4th of July this year they had water trucks to make sure the dust from the gravel portions was held in check. Plenty of shutdown area, but it kind of peaks at the top of a slight rise. If you come over the rise - you're out of room to stop. So don't get startled by running out of shutdown at the top of the rise.

They are very racer-friendly. The owner/operator has bent over backwards to help me test different times throughout the year. They ran the "Million" bracket race this year, and can easily host 300-400 cars with big rigs.

One question I have, is the track is listed at NHRA as an 1/8th mile track. In fact it's a 1/4 mile track, but with grass between the lanes after the 1/8th mile, I'm wondering is they plan to run all classes 1/4 mile, all 1/8th mile, or some of each. I trapped 170 there with no problem shutting down 2600 pounds and never remotely needed to use the chute. So length isn't an issue, but the grass after the 1/8th could be.