I totally agree from the point of view of the circuit, just having the Spanish GP at Barcelona would have been better ...

BUT the event has to be commercially viable and, from this angle, sharing the financial burden between the two venues makes its long term future more certain ... it's better than risking no more Spanish GPs ... look at Holland, Austria and Portugal ... none of them is on the calendar anymore with no real prospect of coming back either ...

Imagine the future of F1 in Spain after Alonso has retired and assuming there is no other Spanish F1 driver with a race seat ... commercial interest will be less ... the juicy sponsorship deals with Santander could just dry up ...

You wouldn't want Spain just to be somewhere that teams come for pre-season testing because of the better winter weather ...

Just my 2 cents ...


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