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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bruce Kaufman doesn't expect you to take racing lawn mowers too seriously. Even his U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association's news releases note that a sense of humor "is not required, but strongly ...

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 ...

If certain high profile motor racing events seem to be getting just that little bit tedious, then why not come down to something a little more cutting edge and with twice the excitement – the annual ...

CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwired - Jul 14, 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 head to ...