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 ...

Dozens of lawn mowers will be making a lot of noise this weekend in the south-central Iowa town of Carlisle, but they won’t be cutting grass. The National Lawn Mower Racing Summer Nationals roll into ...

— 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YORKVILLE - There was a racecourse, the smell of gasoline, broken machines being pushed off the track, the growl of engines, even a crash. But at this race on Saturday morning at the Racine County ...

"The Fast and The Furious" never saw anything like this. Sure, local tracks will offer their weekly dose of stock car racing, but this weekend isn't like most. That's because everything from lawn ...

Janet Witt has racked up loads of mileage riding lawn mowers, but she has yet to cut a blade of grass with one of the mini-tractors. She and her husband, Jim, are among a growing number of lawn mower ...

Racing enthusiasts may dream of driving in the Indy 500 or speeding down the La Mans raceway. But this summer, racers will tear up the hay fields - sort of. DURHAM - Racing enthusiasts may dream of ...

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 ...