A vote on an EU ruling on vehicle insurance, known as VNUK, which threatened the running of motorsport in Europe has gone in favour of motor racing. The VNUK ruling determined vehicles run on private land had to be insured, following an incident in 2014 when a Slovenian farmer for whom the ruling was named after was injured by a reversing tractor. This would have meant all competing machinery on race tracks would have to have been insured, something financially unviable given the nature of motorsport, while any on-track collisions could have been forced to have police involvement. The Motorsport Industry Association has led the way in both Europe and the UK to have motorsport made exempt...
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