E.U. Motorsports may be in trouble

I'm sure that some sort of solution will be found but this may be a big blow for Motorsports in Europe. https://www.autosport.com/national/news/132349/insurance-law-could-close-motorsport-in-eu

Wow.

lawntractors too? that is a pretty wide sweeping regulation

This guy might have difficulties. https://youtu.be/95qZtwJNjxk George Jones too if he were still alive. 

I came in here to scream “PIZZAGATE IS REAL!”

seriously, pretty sure this is the same ruse that came about in the USA not to long ago. How can they require insurance in vehicles without title? Who reports the accidents? Certainly not the enthusiasts that don’t want that “insurance”. 

When you outlaw racing, only outlaws will race.

Way too much money and power in the motorsports industry in the EU nations to let this happen. Just can't imagine it.

yep, I was going to say that.   Way too much money involved.

The terrorists have won... its official.

"I'm sorry Timmy, but we have to sell your Power Wheels Porsche because you ran into Suzie's Power Wheels Corvette three times yesterday and your insurance is going to go through the roof!"

Also came here to say that, real or not, there's no way in hell they're going to lop off a big chunk of their economy.

See also: The US emissions law that SEMA was E36 M3ting their pants over a couple years ago.

I did some googling about this because the Lions are getting beat pretty soundly so I'm looking for a distraction.  This all started because a Slovenian farmer backed his tractor into a ladder, knocking one of his farmhands off the ladder and injuring him.  The farmhand saw that the tractor had insurance for driving on the road and sued the insurer for compensation, even though it happened on private property.  This wound it's way up the ladder from local Slovenian courts all the way to the EU Court of Justice, where the EU court realized that the laws don't actually say that the mandatory insurance coverage is limited to vehicles only to be used on public roads, so this Slovenian farmhand is due compensation.  Because the law doesn't say that insurance is mandatory for vehicles only driven on the road, it means that all motorized vehicles must have the same insurance as their road-going counterparts, so all race cars in the EU right now are supposed to have insurance.  So this scare is not that the EU may change their laws to require race cars and lawnmowers to have insurance, it means that the law is so vague right now that they're already required to have it, it's just that nobody realized it.  But that's only if you read the English version of the law.  If you read the French version the law said that only vehicles used "in traffic", meaning on the road, must have mandatory coverage - the English version said "vehicles in use" which could be interpreted to mean vehicles that are used on private property and never on the road. 

Because the same law is different depending on which language you read it in, they are trying to fix it.  The most likely proposal is to change the language of the law to "in traffic" for all languages because they realize that forcing race cars that never drive on the street to have street legal insurance is ridiculous and would make insurance more expensive for everyone.