Turning lawn mowers into racing vehicles is the latest and most affordable motorsport out there. Any organization that decides to be founded on April Fool’s Day must not take itself too seriously. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...