More trouble at Silverstone - again!

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Originally Posted by chunder

If you are running a huge facility like Silverstone and you have signed up to a contract that escalates year on year. I think the blame has to be pointed at the people who accepted and signed that contract, because the escalator is not a few quid, it is millions of pounds more year on year.

i agree, to a point. but what if, at the time, there was no alternative but to sign the contract to guarantee the short term future of the race. they fully expected to need to renegotiate it in the future and were anticipating multiple venues having the same issue?