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 ...

Prosperity Motorplex hosted a lawn mower mud racing event that had obstacle courses, mud drag racing, and lawn mower races.

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 ...

FRANKFORD — Russell Jennings had an epiphany. And it came at last year's New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show, where the Stillwater man watched a bunch of people race against each ...

— The rolling front lawn of Mike Paccione’s home in Branchburg is dry, straw-colored and not so much trimmed as flattened. It is not the lawn you’d associate with a man who owns and lovingly maintains ...

Spending an entire Saturday afternoon atop a lawn mower is hardly a chore for members of the Mid-Michigan Outlaws Lawn Mower Racing Club. Their modified mowers are built for speed, not yard work.

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 ...

While strolling the grounds at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show at the Convention Center on Thursday afternoon, I stumbled onto the perfect antidote for Richie Incognito and Jonathan ...

I thought I’d seen everything when I watched a jaw-droppingly boring all-terrain vehicle race at the Monster Truck show last month. But I hadn’t reckoned with … lawn mower racing. Did you know that ...

BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) -- You've heard about NASCAR. Now there's GRASSCAR. Lawn mower racing, which has legions of devotees in the car-race-crazed South, has officially arrived in Minnesota. On Saturday ...

Deb Brubaker/For The Daily ItemRacing lawn mowers in the Kid-s Stock race are, from left, Terry Yoder, of Beavertown, Gordon Fultz III, of McClure, and Martin Fultz, of McClure. The Beaver Springs ...

When you race a vehicle made for cutting grass at speeds of up to 50 mph, accidents are bound to happen. Mark Ledford knows all about that. The York man has suffered two broken collar bones in lawn ...