Sponsored by the British Lawn Mower Racing Association
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The BLMRA was founded in 1973 at the Cricketers Arms in Wisborough Green, West Sussex. The founders, having become disillusioned with the ever-increasing cost of auto racing, wanted to provide a motorsport that would be economically accessible to everyone.
Looking out across the village green a window at the Cricketers Arms, they watched a green keeper mowing the cricket pitch. They immediately realized that practically everyone has a lawnmower – little or no incremental cost would be incurred if, after the mowing the lawn, they raced their lawnmowers. Lawn mower racing was born.
They succeeded: lawnmower racing has been described by Motor Sport News to be “the cheapest form of motor.
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