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 ...

FIFIELD - Rock music blared from speakers as spectators sat on bleachers or lawn chairs they brought from home to watch speedsters zoom around a track Sunday afternoon. Sunday was a big day for racing ...

Last year, Mike Miller was mowing Baker Cemetery in Marble Hill, Missouri, to save up enough money to build a lawn mower that he could race. This year, he's ridden that lawn mower into the winner's ...

We swapped a 450cc engine into a lawn mower for ultimate speed — but things got out of hand fast… No brakes, wild wheelies, and crashes! Should we retire from racing lawn mowers forever?

DECATUR — Jason Brown said he liked racing his lawn mower as a child, cutting loose was just as fun as cutting the grass. “It's the first thing you want to do as kid when you get on a mower,” he said.