Official Lawn Mower Racing

Do you ever get bored riding your mower 'round and 'round your yard week after week? I must admit, sometimes I did. Until I got an older Huskee six-speed tractor with a failing transmission, that is. The only speeds that would work were first and sixth. First gear was so slow that you could easily pass me walking backwards. Sixth gear, on the other hand, moved considerably faster. I mowed my lawn in record time with that tractor. First, it was all I could do to hang on to my racing lawn mower. But in time I got used to whizzing across my yard, screeching around the corners and turns without slowing down at all. The idea to soup-up my tractor and enter it into lawn mower racing came to mind. I really need it to mow my yard more than I need a dangerous hobby, but still...

"Stab-il" and the United States Lawn Mower Racing Association
But, that hasn't stopped hundreds of men- and a few brave women- across the United States, from racing their own lawn mowers. Just when you thought that man was racing every type of machine he could, someone looked at the lawn mower in a different light. That "someone" were the executives at the Gold Eagle Company in Chicago. Gold Eagle manufactures a gasoline stabilizer called, appropriately, "Sta-bil." Sta-bil keeps gasoline fresh even after it has been stored for a period of time. This product works so well at keeping gasoline from gumming up that it's "the top-selling fuel stabilizer in America." And, who needs this stabilizer more than the millions who put their lawn mowers away at the end of every mowing season? So, the Gold Eagle Company created the "United States Lawn Mower Racing Association" in 1992 as a way to promote their product.