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 ...

ST. PETER, Minn. — Andy Tronnes had no idea lawn mower racing was already a national sport when he and a few buddies started racing their small tractors around a horseshoe driveway near Hibbing seven ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TWELVE MILE, Ind. — By all accounts, John Troyer wasn’t supposed to win. Despite a qualifying time that placed him in third to start, Troyer’s first few laps were rough, and he found himself buried in ...

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 ...

JONESBORO--It's that time of year again, the leaves bud out, the flowers bloom, and the grass begins to green up. For those of us with a yard that means it's time to crank up the old lawnmower. But ...