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 ...

RATHDRUM – Dozens of North Idaho riders have caught the lawn-mower racing bug and are turning a weekend chore into a competitive sport. Last weekend’s season opener, Bonner’s Ferry Lawn Mower Races, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you race a vehicle made for cutting grass at speeds of up to 50 mph, accidents are bound to happen. Mark Ledford knows all about that. The York man has suffered two broken collar bones in lawn ...

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 ...

The lawn mowers can clock up to 90 miles per hour. They can spit dirt and draw curious dozens away from county fair rides and turkey legs. But no, they can't cut grass. "The blades are the first to go ...

Riding mowers operate differently from most vehicles. The deck, which features the cutting blade, typically runs at a consistent speed. That means the mower's transmission controls its overall speed.

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 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. - 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 ...