00:02On your marks, get set, mow.
00:11It was all dirt, no grass at the All-Australian Warnmower Racing Championships just north of Rockhampton.
00:19The nation's fuel crisis couldn't put the brakes on this event, with racers from across the country gathering for the
00:26unique motorsport.
00:28Emily Butcher isn't old enough to get her car licence yet, but that hasn't stopped the 11-year-old from
00:35tearing up the tracks.
00:37I think it's really fun and how it's really loud and powerful and it's really fast.
00:44My friends are like, oh my gosh, that's so cool.
00:46Bill Vaughan calls himself a 1932 model, the 94-year-old catching the need for speed later in life.
00:55I've got a couple of firsts, I think, and seconders, third maybe, and a fourth.
01:00Anyway, not too bad for an old bloke.
01:02There was plenty of rev action and a little bit of road rage.
01:07Organisers say the community and camaraderie is what brings people back every year.
01:12Everybody coming here and everybody is pitched in.
01:16It doesn't matter what club, what state, what type of mower you've got, if someone can help you out.
01:20Lawn mower racing all began in Australia in 1988, the story goes.
01:27A group of friends had a disagreement at a country pub in Victoria.
01:31What happened next?
01:32They raced their lawnmowers downhill.
01:36And so began the birth of a new sport.
01:39With hundreds of members across the country, mower racing is growing in popularity,
01:45partially because it's cheaper than most motorsports.
01:49Just don't expect these rev heads to tend to your garden anytime soon.
01:53We can get rid of the grass.
01:56Don't actually cut the grass, we get rid of it.
01:58We can get rid of it.
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