I can't say I'm all that surprised about my final opinion on Swamp Buggy Racing. It's like university cafeteria food ¿ at the moment I saw it, and especially when I first started eating it, I knew it ...

Malcolm Lightner, “Full Throttle” (2013) (all images from ‘Mile o’ Mud: The Culture of Swamp Buggy Racing,’ courtesy PowerHouse Books; all caption information by Malcolm Lightner) The distinctly ...

Swamp buggy racing lost two legends, two historic drivers who have been linked to the local sport for more than half of its 72-year existence. Terry Langford and Ray Thornton were related by marriage ...

Ahead of the inaugural Miami GP, drivers Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda try their hand at a different type of Florida racing. Race week has finally arrived for the inaugural Miami GP, conjuring up ...

Swamp buggy racing just might be the most Florida thing to come out of Florida. Three times each year in Naples, goggled drivers whiz down a flooded dirt track—officially christened the "Mile O’ ...

Drag Racing ace “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, who topped the list of NHRA's Top 50 Racers in a 2000 poll of historians, media, officials, drivers and racing insiders, earned his respect grudgingly, and his ...

Racing swamp buggies is deeply rooted in the history of Naples and the surrounding area, including the Everglades. But what are swamp buggies and how did the tradition begin? As one might imagine, ...

NAPLES, Fla. – The second race of the swamp buggy season is ready to make some noise at the Florida Sports Park for the Budweiser Winter Classic, just like they’ve been doing three times a year for ...

A photographer who grew up in the home of swamp buggy racing has spent more than a decade documenting the unique sport. Malcolm Lightner, 45, now lives in New York, but was brought up in a trailer ...