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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I thought I’d seen everything when I watched a jaw-droppingly boring all-terrain vehicle race at the Monster Truck show last month. But I hadn’t reckoned with … lawn mower racing. Did you know that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While strolling the grounds at the Specialty Equipment Market Association show at the Convention Center on Thursday afternoon, I stumbled onto the perfect antidote for Richie Incognito and Jonathan ...

FRANKFORD — Russell Jennings had an epiphany. And it came at last year's New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show, where the Stillwater man watched a bunch of people race against each ...

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 ...