FIFIELD - Rock music blared from speakers as spectators sat on bleachers or lawn chairs they brought from home to watch speedsters zoom around a track Sunday afternoon. Sunday was a big day for racing ...
Lawn-mower racing came to the United States in 1992. It had been going strong in England since 1973, when Jim Gavin, an Irish rally driver, created the sport to be a low-buck endeavor for the average ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Aug 4, 2014) - The STA-BIL Engine Answerman, Bobby Cleveland, driver of the world's fastest racing lawn mower and builder of the world's first Monster Mower, will motor ...
BARNWELL, S.C. — Bill Ray will tell you there isn't much to do in Barnwell, South Carolina. Its a sleepy Southern town where folks wave to each other and the best seat in the house is most likely on ...
Three years ago, Rex and Chad Norton were puzzled by 18-year-old Bryan Wood of Muskegon who kept coming into Norton Small Engine Repair on East Apple Avenue to purchase lawn mower engine parts. When ...