All the familiar sights and sounds of a drag race are there: the thrum of the engine, the eager hoots from the sidelined crowd, whirling tires kicking up dust as they rip towards the finish line.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Any organization that decides to be founded on April Fool’s Day must not take itself too seriously. The U.S, Lawn Mower Racing Assoc. (USLMRA), for instance, was founded on April 1, 1992. And even its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...