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 ...

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 ...

An average person might take a day or two to get his lawnmower in shape for the summer months. Phil Thompson, on the other hand, would spend about a month on his. Of course, he'd be priming it for ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...