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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...