A cut above: Lawn mower racing throws up some cheap thrills at show

MOVE over Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and make way for other adventurous types who are now using lawn mowers in a less costly form of the sport.

Spectators at the Charleville Agricultural Show, which celebrated its 30th birthday with a €150,000 programme of events on a 45-acre site, were thrilled at the spectacle of racing lawn mowers.

A retired pensioner, a pub manager, mine and design engineers, a student, an osteopath, a swimming pool technician, a network analyst, a mechanic, a technical consultant, a sales man and a workshop designer, all from England, did the driving.