Lawnmower Racing - what a great way to spend a Sunday - pics

[autofocus]

Hi there,

Was planning on going to Donington to watch the motor racing today but instead arranged to meet up with my Dad who was part of the crew on the President which is a famous steam powered narrow boat. He was at the Shackerstone Family Festival near Nuneaton and while he was busy talking to visitors about the boat I took off to have a wander around the event.

The was a Lawn Mower Racing demonstration taking place in one of the fields and me being me thought it would be a great chance to get some shots.

Struggled a bit to be honest as there was that much dust around the camera was finding it hard to focus.

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The pilot (?) of number 41 was using some great expressions to scare the competition.



This one is not brilliantly sharp but love the action in the back ground.







Hope you like them.

Regards

Tim

Edited by autofocus on Sunday 2nd September 21:46

[rich 36]

Excellent,

looks a lot of fun

[jagdpanther]

Its like an outtake from Mad Max 2

Brilliant shots and shows that you dont have to attend big fancy motorsports to achieve a good result

[countachman]

great pics mate

[lord summerisle]

autofocus said:

Daaaave.. is dave there....

[steven f]

would love to do this but unfortunitly i have never used a lawn mower as i have a gardener

[speedychrissie]

a group of us from my uni motor club nearly got around to sorting out a mower for the big season this year but it never quite got off the ground. seems like quite a shame now as i would have loved to have been doing that.

nice pics

[CY88]

autofocus said:

That's the kind of approach that's needed on my unruly lawn!

Great pictures. Looks like a great laugh.

[Rednut05]

lord summerisle said:

autofocus said:

Daaaave.. is dave there....

You're my wife now Dave.....

[dhutch]

Just found this now.
- We are planning to be a shackerstone this year 6th-7th september with our steam narrowboat after the National at wolverhampton.

Not been before, but only hear good things!


Daniel

[Goldeeno]

Awesome shots, that looks so much fun... not for the guy in the background though, did he roll it???

[CVP]

That's great. Some lovely images there. The expression on number 41's face is priceless. The roll in progress made me laugh out loud.

Now I have to explain to an office of my new American collegaues why Brits race lawnmowers

Do you think I should try and explain the traditional cheese chasing race or what about Morris dancing?

Chris

[toohuge]

that looks like serious fun!

[fish]

The guy on number 41 looks very familiar

Great pictures looks good fun