Lawn mower racing

So actually, to be fair, maybe with fuel costs, saving a couple of bucks in the labour weekend sales isn't actually worth it.

Coming up on the show today, we're talking honey and bees with Murray Bush, a bit of rural sport with Lawnmower Racing Nationals coming up this weekend in the Bay, a bit more rural sport with another rural sporting legend, Janet Smith, an absolute legend.

She's a wool judge, president of the Merino Shearing Champs.

We hear how it all works, I guess, from a wool handling perspective, what they're judged on, and her incredible career throughout the wool industry.

Some of them are around sort of, I don't know, 800 cc engines feed twins so they're relatively big engines but they give you a lawnmower motor so um but they still go pretty good

yeah yeah and i know we've spoken about this before but there's no blades or anything there's no lawns actually being mowed it's a big track no suspension talk us through what what the track's going to look like

well i actually haven't seen the track because it's being hosted by the hawks bay lawnmower racing club they had a good event last year we went down to their um their local event which was the east coast champs and they had a good track down there it's the same place i think it's going to be a good flowing track there'll be a few tight corners to challenge you but a few straights as well to crank them up to get a speed in them as well hopefully it'll be a driver's track so um you know it'll level everybody up you can have all the power in the world but you still gotta go around the corners so uh yeah it should be a good we've got uh i believe nearly 40 entries um into the racing for the weekend so yeah i'm looking forward to it the weather's gonna be great we booked the weather so it's gonna be awesome

Are there riders, races traveling up from the South Island for this as well?