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 ...

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 ...

— 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Fast and The Furious" never saw anything like this. Sure, local tracks will offer their weekly dose of stock car racing, but this weekend isn't like most. That's because everything from lawn ...

The national Lawn Mower Racing Summer Nationals are coming to Carlisle this weekend.Organizers said "professional" lawn mower racers will "compete for bragging rights, lawn ornaments and coveted ...

Lawn mower racing is a far cry from the glitz and glamour of Formula One but the niche motorsport is taking off across Australia. The All Australian Ride-On Mower Racing championship returned to ...

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 ...

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 ...