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I've heard that Spanish tracks make more money with testing and track days than with events.
One of the big issues with Spanish tracks is the complete lack of good national championships to keep the weekends busy. As far as I know the only national championships are the CER (Open endurance) and the Spanish GT. Spanish federation has done a very poor job promoting internally the spanish motorsport during the Alonso years. When Alonso will retire Spain will be mostly a motorsport desert (Sainz Jr is the big hope). It's terrible because good drivers like Hernandez, Jaime Alguersuari, Albert Costa, Borja Garcia or Javi Villa cannot find a national championship to continue. In the 90's Albacete, Jordi Gene or Campos found a place in the Spanish Touring championship, now that door is closed.
Navarra is in North Spain, the climate is not so friendly than in Monteblanco, Jerez or Cheste and teams can find temperatures below zero in winter ( this happened to AF Corse in Aragon last winter ).
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