JACKSON, MI - Racing lawn mowers can top out at speeds near 85 mph. While it would be convenient - and fun - to mow your lawn in 49 seconds, these machines are modified solely to race. Lawn-mower ...

If certain high profile motor racing events seem to be getting just that little bit tedious, then why not come down to something a little more cutting edge and with twice the excitement – the annual ...

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 ...

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 ...

— 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 ...

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 ...

London - Spring has arrived in Britain and with it, the suburban drone of the lawn mower. But while most people are content merely to cut the grass, a small band of adrenalin junkies are preparing ...

NORTHBROOK, IL--(Marketwired - Jun 1, 2015) - The U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA) has announced that it will bring its 23 rd annual STA-BIL National Lawn Mower Racing Series Championships ...

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 ...

ELK RIVER, Minn. (WCCO) --NASCAR has well-known drivers like Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick. In Minnesota, there's a lesser-known racing circuit with drivers known as "Grandpa" and "Miss Behavin." ...

Lawn mower racers can hit speeds up to 50 mph as they zip around dirt tracks (without blades). It started as a solution to expensive motorsports and grown into a global phenomenon. The British Lawn ...