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Originally Posted by Sodemo
Why did Silverstone "lose" its WEC race? Whenever I attended over the last 10 years it was always really busy...?
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We don’t know for sure ofc, but reasonable guess is a combination of (i) it’s not a particularly glamourous place, (ii) they wouldn’t pay enough (or charged too much, I’m not sure which it is for WEC races), (iii) Brexit and (iv) when the calendar was cut back it was the easiest to drop because of all the above.
One other thing about Silverstone is that the grandstands are mostly empty even with the 50k crowd they claimed for WEC, so it never looks full, even when there’s a decent attendance.
Silverstone exists to host the F1 GP and corporate track days. I am sure they would be very happy to have WEC back, but not to the point of vying with other tracks which, to be fair, usually have some form of local or national Govt funding.
Edit: just realised I replied without noticing there was already a page of replies saying similar, sorry!