Inside the Indy 500 of Lawnmower Races
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2019
- Sure, you can use a riding lawnmower to cut grass. But you can also slap on a helmet, put together a pit crew and race. Yes, lawnmower racing is a thing, and it is extraordinary. Think NASCAR or Formula 1-just a bit slower. In England, the British Lawn Mower Racing Association oversees the sport. We followed the members of the Who’s Racing team as they compete in a grueling 12-hour endurance race in Five Oaks, England. Get ready to witness the Greatest Show on Turf.
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They should've called it " From Dusk Till Lawn"
Electrize or Le Mows
Jake Deane respect you having Brighton fc as pic
Dusk2Lawn
Frostfire Ashes to ashes, dusk to lawn
Or the big lawn
No one is gonna sponsor this:
*RedBull has been summoned *
Teodor Yosifov no one*
@@Elk911 ;)
@@Elk911 no wan
Lmao
2:11 back of the guys shirt
The way these guys are introduced feels like a movie. Who else would love to see a movie about these guys competing against each other in this race for a grand prize?
lanwmower version of Ford vs Ferrari/Le Mans '66
During I would watch that series lmao
*Netflix coming out of nowhere*
No one
Lawnmower Nights: The ballad of Dan Dan
That "Ford vs Ferrari" movie looks great
Actually I just saw it! It's really good!!
Olivia Myers the joke was him talking about this as if it was f v f
@@quinngoodman1078 I got that.
Olivia Myers r/woooosh
@@oliviamyers2165 seems per usual other UA-cam commenters don't understand the fine art of "context". It was a good movie! And you clearly got the joke, the other commenters seem to not realize you can add indirectly to a conversation and still be relevant. I wonder if they've ever written a thesis paper?😂
1:04 Guy's head is steaming lol
lmao yes!
He’s on fire
Like a freshly boiled potatoes and eggs.
This is the most Dad sport ive ever seen.
Hahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂
It's so true🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Every dad's dream and a kid's dream earning some money by cutting his neighbour's lawn
Cuts a lawn in 7 seconds flat
I love cutting another man's grass
@@renton6349 ?
The only true "grassroots" motorsport.
🥁 🔥 you win 🏆
😆😂🤣
so true..
This is gold 😂
I was super skeptical and feeling like I was just going to make fun of these people when I first clicked but I gotta say how cool it is the engineering they do, and how competitive the race is for the low barrier of entry. Top blokes.
So what are you gonna do this weekend?
Oh, I'm just gonna race my lawn mower for 12 hours.
"The Grass Bandits"
Probably the coolest thing ive ever heard.
Tru
Ferruccio Lamborghini:
“I make farming equipment and I want to make race cars”
*Sees lawn mower race
“This isn’t what I meant”
Lawnborgini.
You don't know that. Maybe he always imagined a rocket-powered combine.
Lamborghini was actually very anti race car, because he almost died in his one and only race
He was always against race cars, maybe the miura kind of made him think of them, but he's was anti race cars
themadscientest underrated
This Iooks like an American thing but it’s not
Ohh yes it is. We Yanks race lawnmowers too, just like this race.
@Zany Zebra there are indy tracks that arent ovals, but that said i get rather annoyed at how many ovals and oval-ish like tracks there are
Pretty sure this thing started in the US.
I bet it'd have a v8 stuff in the lawnmower
@@renz1013 ua-cam.com/video/qzVBpddpK2k/v-deo.html
I’ve been along to this event a few years ago with team “ grassed and furious” sadly we didn’t finish as the engine blew in the early hours of the morning but it was great fun 🛠😀👍🏻
Graham Howland that actually looks really fun cool to see someone who actually did it
Make all the jokes you want, but this is the spirit of motorsport in its purest form.
6:28 Ah yes, the old LeMans tradition
Its call land rush i think (just wanted to let you know)
@@TheGamingCat-zo4go Ok (ok)
Shouldn't that be 'Lawn Mans?'
I did this race during the summer (our mower is in the video). It's incredible fun, but my whole body hurt for the next few days after
Waa it worth it?
@@daniyarsadykov3385 Completely. One of the best things I've done. We are now prepping the mower for next year
Ruari Bush which mower?
Green number 19, its only in the video briefly a few times
Ruari Bush can you give me a time stamp?
This is so cool. It's a legit race. And when you add the engineering and lawn mower modifiers, it's so interesting to watch. This is indeed the purest form of racing
“who the heck will sponsor this crap??”
*Red Bull has entered chat*
Red bull will sponsor anything. I'm surprised they haven't started a late model team.
Most American thing I have seen a foreign country do.
We so it here in America.. I'm currently trying to build my own racing mower
Miitallica madlad
America is just a independent UK anyway, considering that's what the war was pretty much about, so anything that's America is essentially British in the first place >in a way
@kitten Lawn mower racing was started back in 1973 by an Irishman called Jim Gavin, who, with a bunch of mates had gone down to The Cricketers Arms in Wisborough Green, West Sussex for a few pints one lunchtime to discuss his latest motorsport idea. No it didn’t
@@robc1014 Oldest known lawnmower race in UK was held in 1968, while in the US it was 1963.
Looks dangerous, but I really wanna try it. 😆
Chi chan
I bet it’s a blast!
I mean who doesn't?..it looks hella fun
Yep
Good fun! We do it yearly.
It's really no different to going around fields on a mini Moto aka monkey bikes expect instead of 2 wheels it's 4
I live in the netherlands and we also have these mower races, only here you can (almost) change whatever you want as long as it looks like a lawnmower. So the mowers have 600cc 100hp bike engines which makes them stupid fast.
300CC+ in a lawnmower is literally a tiny version of a Lancia Stratos.
SilenT DemoN
I’ve got a running 400cc Yamaha engine in a wrecked four wheeler I traded for. This kinda swap would be a lotta fun.
Dude 300 cc+ in a lawn mower is scary fast
A 300cc lawn mower would be tiny
My mower has a 500cc single cylinder it's completely stock
Here in the U.S. we have the FXT (factory experimental twin) class, which run V-twins up to 720cc. They sound more like muscle cars than mowers.
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How have we not have came up with this first?
-Me, an American citizen
Typical Midwestern bro we race tanks
no we race cardboard
@@Kelekky thought you would race your diesels cars
RiceAwakes why deisel
*points at starting jet engine*
Wiki says Murican started racing lawn mower first. 1963.
12 hours on something with no suspension? Mad respect. I don't think I could walk for a week after that honestly! Lol
As someone from Indianapolis, this would be more entertaining than the Indy 500.
Folks go to the Indy 500 to get drunk and sunburnt, not watch the racing.
How bout racing the mowers at Daytona?
@@LivDigsRacing it would take 12 years.
@@Justanotherlemon these things can hit 50+ mph, wouldn't be that slow tbh.
Right now: lawnmower 12 hour endurance racing
Next year: mopeds race for 500 miles.
Can you imagine that? A cross country moped rally.
NASCAR wants to know your location.
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In the netherlands we race solex motorized bicycles. The ones with the engine on the frontwheel. Great fun
The little town of Twelve Mile, Indiana started what was called the "Twelve Mile 500" riding lawn mower race in 1963. It's been goin on every July 4th ever since.
Oh this must be what my grandparents do nowadays
The flowers are Blooming
The bees are buzzing
And lawnmowers like you
Should be going to race
This is the best poem I have ever read
My kinda folks, not rich, family oriented, they know how to have fun, and they’re smart enough not to go into debt doing it.
Aaron Burr Atwood. Probably are reasonably wealthy
Brilliant fun, thanks for the video !
Nobody:
Me: *Rides Mower going to work*
"Stares out the office's Window....sees Mexican guys mowing the lawn" I got an Idea....
7:55 pm in England lookin like noon, meanwhile in Texas the sun starts setting at 4:30
the sun never sets on the british empire
Yeah summer days are long, gets dark by 11pm at height of summer but pitch black at 4pm in winter.
This is awesome! I'd go drink beer and watch this!
This sounds like the absolute best use of 12 hours.
Really thought this was going to take place in the Deep South
Arthur Kaplan Sussex is the Deep South
@@jakedeane5304 he meant in the US (Alabama, Florida, Louisiana)
We been doing that sense they came out with the mower, but is only local and not well known.
We’ve got races up in Minnesota my dad used to do it in the early 2000s and late 90s
Saw Ford vs Ferrari a week ago and now this. What a time to be alive.
THIS IS THE MOST EPIC THING EVER
Longest ever great big story video I have seen so far.
This actually looks like so much fun
Imagine if some guy brings a Honda mean mower on a race day.
Looks like fun!!!
I love lawnmower racing in my county there’s a track and I’ve always loved it
What a riot, looks like great fun.
Amazing content
Great job
1:04 so we're just gonna ignore the fact that Collin Clegg's head was smoking
great video!
This looks so much fun
This is a fun video!
Lamborghini should start making lawnmowers with v8 and v6 for this
This is great innit
Charles,Albon,and George was pretty much racing these vehicles
Well at this point I'm pretty sure these mowers are better than what haas is driving.
awesome!!
“ no one is gonna sponsor this”
Red Bull has entered the chat
I'd like to see this tried with walk behind mowers with velkes
That would be utterly dangerous. I love it.
That would be great, think of the body english leaning into the turns to keep from flipping and on your feet letting your legs to absorb the shock.
Wow, mini Le Mans here
That's awesome!
The live-action adaptation of Initial D is looking really weird...
Lawnmower racing: We take 12 hours. Enduro and Baja: Are we a joke to you?
That looks so fun
Finally, the Holy trinity of sports!
Lawn mower racing
Pig'n'ford
And Finally, Barbie jeep racing
I want another yearly review of the event!
That's legit where I live billingshurst witch is like 3 mins from 5 oaks
Here i'm Brazil Great Big Story's translation is like "Big Big Story" haha
I wish we had this in northern Texas
My mans head was steamin at 1:03 XD
Its 5 lights... and its lights out AND AWAY WE GO!
Always knew that Wisborough Green had a big lawnmower race, didn't know it was the original!
Very Interesting video
was definitely expecting this to be set somwhere in the US midwest lolo
Me: I can cut a hole lawn in 10 minutes
Dan Jones: *hold my beer*
9 minutes and 44 seconds, these guys are legit
love our sisters and brothers across the pond
When I saw the title I instantly thought..
TURBO FAST ON NETFLIX 💨
wow that looks really fun especially the lack of rules
I got an old racing mower mostly made with bicycle parts and a straight 3 I fixed up from a yard, it goes about 60-70 mph but is very unstable, I think I'll be widening the front axle to allow it to open up more
For clarification, the bicycle parts is the drive system which is driven by 2 chains and 2 sprockets from a bicycle, the body is reinforced by cut down pieces of a bike chassis and the foot pegs for the throttle and brake are the end pieces of the handle bars
Yo man this Wreckfest server looks epic
In Canada we have mod classed racing with sled engines and motorcycle engles
Lawn mower racing and demo derby, that’s the shit that I’d love to do. I’ve always been a bit nutty when it comes to Motorsport, quads and dirt bikes are my thing but I’m always looking for something new
Who needs Mario Kart
Agreed
Oh the Brits! Gotta love ‘em!
Now this. This is the news I want
This is how I want to spend my time
Pretty cool
It’s lights out and away we mow!
Because it's FUN!
"No one would ever want to sponsor something like that, let's race those!" 😂
I used to live near there and remember someone telling me that the late great Oliver Reed was a regular participant back in the day.
lol i was watching this, typed "how to make" into the search bar and the first thing that comes up is "how to make a racing lawnmower"
The 12 hours of le lawns! Lol
1:04
when you freestyle in your head
this is the best
Damn, that lawn lookin THICC
shoulda went wile "The Lawn-mans" after that lemans style start haha
sick
It’s very interesting indeed
The Grass Bandits!
What transmissions do you in the rear end? I’m very curious