Like a lot of young kids, I had a lawn mowing business, and I was always looking for ways to get the job done quicker.
If only I had known you could soup up a riding lawnmower to hit 50 miles per hour, I'd have cleared those yards faster than a knife fight in a phone booth.
That's exactly what gents across the pond do every year for the annual Le Mow, AKA the BLMRA 500.
Le Mow was started back in 1973 when a bunch of blokes in Sussex got together for pints. Well one pint led to another, and then they decided to race their lawnmowers.
How else could this sport become a thing?
Now here we are in 2023 with rules and regulations, but I'm pretty sure there's still quite a few pints involved.
Fifty teams brought their racing lawnmowers to complete 500 laps on a 1.4 kilometer track (that's about 435 miles for us yanks), and the race took 14 hours to complete.
Each team had three racers that alternated driving and completed pit stops along the way. I imagine one man riding one of these machines for 14 hours would be quite the pain in the grass if you know what I mean.
In the end, one lawnmower would rise up and cut down the competition.
Alfie Smith with the Bullseye Racing team crossed the finish line in first place.
I'm sure Alfie's wife is ready for him to put that thing back to work mowing the yard.
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