Blades are removed from racing lawn mowers and steel welded on the frame for stability. In some classes, machines must run on original lawn mower engines. All must have hydraulic brakes.

You might think that the idea of racing lawn mowers started with two overly competitive rednecks drinking too much beer and trading idiotic boasts over a barbed wire fence. You would only be half ...

Which then led Bill to create Hilltop 150, a drag strip for racing lawn mowers in the field next to his house at 356 Meadowlark Road in Barnwell. This is the second year of racing at the Hilltop 150.

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 mowers to buses will take the green flag. And don't even ...

"We really have everything from Ph.D.s to the guy who repairs lawn mowers for a living." Hill, 47, is the repairman. He started racing when a customer sold him a mower. "Man, he started that thing ...

Racing souped-up lawn mowers has grown in popularity over the years, eventually prompting the formation of the United States Lawn Mowing Racing Association in 1992. The organization hosts more ...