Smith Rd is my favorite practice track and I've been missing them terribly this season. Of course people complain more than anything else, because they want to make every track their perfect place.......... Smith Rd is great practice for me, I love that there are no sessions and I can ride as long as I want, I like that it starts muddy and works in all night long until it might be blue groove and slippery by the end of the night, I like that I can get practice passing by taking the "other" line that people swear is not there (which is great passing practice), and I love that it's close and still open (except for this summer) for me on Wednesday nights. Could it be better? Sure, but it's way better than my options on Wednesday night, and I'm happy to have a place to ride!!!! I have to race under different conditions so I might as well practice on different conditions too. I go to sand tracks to learn how to ride in sand, I go to clay tracks to learn how to ride on clay, and ride all kinds of conditions because I never know what I'm going to get at the race track when I want to make it count.
Lighten up people, why not enjoy what we have?