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 ...
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." ...
Motorsports are a huge industry, spawning documentaries and films, massive amounts of news coverage, rabidly dedicated fans, formal racing associations, and, of course, countless competitions every ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...