Turning lawn mowers into racing vehicles is the latest and most affordable motorsport out there. Any organization that decides to be founded on April Fool’s Day must not take itself too seriously. The ...

After the ongoing pandemic washed out the first events of the season, lawn mower racing in Texas got going again this past Saturday. The racers were excited to get back on the track, and we were ...

His day job: Drives a truck. His weekend passion: Drives a lawn mower. Tom Lavalette shakes his head and grins about his lifestyle of driving. Then he puts on a red, white and blue padded suit, a ...

Here’s the appeal of lawn mower racing summed up in less than 15 words: “You take a lawn mower and make it go 60 miles per hour.” So says Jere Heineman, Hibbing resident, lawn mower racer and vice ...

OK, this does not involve your father’s John Deere lawnmower. Then again, it could. And that, in a nutshell, is the beauty of lawmower racing at Moose Mountain Speedway in Hastings. Want to race a ...

For safety reasons, lawn mowers are designed to be on the slower side, used for the monotonous task of yard maintenance. But if you remove the blades and swap the engine out for a motorbike's, you ...

Kerry Evans' ascent to the presidency of the United States Lawnmower Racing Association was set into motion in 1995 when a patron pulled up outside his engine dealership in Alabama and asked him to ...

The men, about 30 of them, form a semicircle of blue jeans, work boots, ball caps and sweat-soaked T-shirts. They smoke cigarettes and spit jokes as they stand in the short grass, under the hot sun, ...