You are the to visit since April, 1997.

We were recently contacted by the television show "Wife Swap" as they want to do a show with lawnmower racing families! Wouldn't that be a hoot! We'll keep you posted if anything pans out on that.

A book entitled: "CRACKER INGENUITY: TIPS FROM THE TRAILER PARK FOR THE CHRONICALLY BROKE" by P.T. Elliott and E.M. Lowry, was just released March, 2003, which published some of Trish Potenza's photos in a lawnmower racing article (pages 136-138). Trish is the official photographer for the Ohio Mower Racers and Dewberry Mudboggers. Books are available at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble Book Stores. Check it out!!

Above is our Dewberry Mudboggers Lawnmower Racing Team group photo. From left to right are: Chuck Heineman ("HOMER"); Jed Combs ("MOLE MAN"); Mona Miller (Timekeeper -- sitting on Chuck's other mower "PIT BULL"); Bill Burwell ("MUD LITE"); Tommy White ("RED DOGG II); Jim Miller ("OL ' POSSUM"); Larry Potenza ("ONE BAD MUDDER") and Trish Potenza ("POWER SLAVE"). Not pictured from our group are Rodney Day (who know owns "PIT BULL") and Mike Spaulding (who know owns "MOLE MAN"). We are the first lawnmower racing team doing mud runs, and among many lawnmower racing enthusiasts who travel the U.S. to race on a grass track. Our two groups, The Dewberry Mudboggers and Ohio Mower Racers, have won several National Championships, Regionals, and just love to "kick grass!" We mudbog where we live (in Columbus, Ohio), but we travel to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and all over Ohio for regionals and exhibitions. A few also travel to Maryland and North Carolina.

We purchase old riding lawnmowers from flea markets or wherever we can find an old one, put on a new paint job, fix the engine, and we are on our way!! Most of the Dewberry Mudboggers race lawnmowers that are 20+ years old. (They don't make them like they used to!!) Our group races Cub Cadets, Dynamarks, Murrays, Hondas, Springfields, & MTD's.

On a grass track, our lawnmowers reach speeds of 40-60 MPH. At the Ohio Mower Racers' sanctioned races, there are three classes to participate in (all 16.0 HP and under -- single cylinder).

Our lawnmowers are extremely fast, but not as fast as the US Lawn Mower Racing Association's exhibition lawnmower, the DIXIE CHOPPER, which is a commercial-size lawnmower with a helicopter jet engine on it (150 HP) which can mow a football field in 14 minutes!! (And you wondered why it was only for exhibition????) This lawnmower was raced by Tim Allen on the show "HOME IMPROVEMENT" in 1993 (when he raced against Bob Villa). HOT WHEELS now has the collectable Dixie Chopper with Tim Allen for you lawnmower racing fans!!

The above picture is of Trish Potenza on her lawnmower, the "IRON MAIDEN" (#27) and was taken from TNN Motor Madness which aired 12/26/97 from the 1997 USLMRA STA-BIL Nationals at the Rockford Metrocentre in Rockford, Illinois.

We update our pages to reflect how we've done at our monthly mudbogs (from May to October every year), our Ohio Mower Racers sanctioned lawnmower races, our regional/national lawnmower races with the United States Lawn Mower Association STA-BIL Lawnmower Racing Series, as well as keep you updated on our exhibition lawnmower races we compete in.

We also have the DEWBERRY MUDBOGGERS AND OHIO MOWER RACERS DRIVER PROFILE PAGE that has more information about the lawnmower racers individually (where they've raced, what they placed, what they were driving, etc., and TONS of pictures and cool tunes!! We are always adding more information as we get it so keep checking back!! CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT!!

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LETS GO RACING!!!

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