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If you end up in Louisville, look me up. I usually end up somewhere in Indiana once or twice a week racing or watching or wrenching or something. If you're bored through the week, I could always use an extra hand to wrench, talk, or even just sit back and laugh and throw stuff at me while I work on my car.
Not sprints, but Brownstown and Bardstown are both within an hour; Ponderosa Speedway (in Junction City...cool track currently going through some promotion line-dancing) and Florence are within an hour and a half. Dirt sprints you'll have to trek to Indiana for; Bloomington's about 2 hours; Paragon is 2.5. Twin Cities is a reasonable drive (little over an hour IIRC), and their sprint races are usually good when they run them. Haubstadt takes about an hour and 45 minutes, and it's worth every second of the drive. The only unreasonable trips are north of Indy to Gas City or Kokomo, but they're still worth it a couple times a year.
I like pavement, too, so as SeaDog said, Salem is an absolute must. ARCA, USAC, Must-See winged sprints; they're all spectacular there. The Sportsdrome is a place you have to visit at least once. It's about a 10 minute drive from downtown Louisville, and it's an experience. Dromer oval cars (basically pure stocks) flip a coin on front stretch to see if they run clockwise or counterclockwise. The FWD division race like they're in a demo derby, and the X-treme winged Figure 8 cars are pretty wicked, fast, racing within tenths of a second from utter destruction at the crossover. The biggest fan reaction you'll see all night is if there's a pit fight. It's an interesting place.
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