Open-wheel racing means Indy cars and Formula One to some; to David Hill, it's a 1999 Murray riding lawn mower. "I'm one of them that likes to ride the ragged edge," Hill said. "I'm not trying to blow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...