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Plant
I think you might be missing a vital point.
Those ventures have not been done by Silverstone they are both private AT Silver-stone and they are probably paying some kind of rent to be there. Not sure on apartments as I think they are on land not owned by the track not the hotel for sure is. The hotel for sure is probably very busy with meetings and clients and people testing and working at Aston etc, the Wing was apparently very busy with this kind of stuff for a while so that business plan for a hotel is clear.
The apartments are really sort of timeshare, you can own them but not live in them, they are renting out, staying at certain events etc. Main worry there is the access to MAggots on the outside, we were promised it would remain, but it has not been open for over 2 years now, nearly 3.
None of this has any effect on the track, which has to pay for an event like WEC, and probably a pretty penny, and if, as we think, WEC gets more popular that amount will only rise as the rights holder knows people want rounds.
the rights holders of ANY series F1 included go to the highest bidders FIRST, it is why the calendars for F1 and MotoGP have expanded to include high paying venues without dropping too many existing ones.
The concern for the UK is that traditionally this event has not seen big crowds, remove that income from the hosting fee and you see the issue, Bahrain, Qatar do not care about crowds, just sportwashing.
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