Following close competition last year and a long offseason, there’s excitement surrounding the Swamp Buggy Races as the Naples original sport enters its eighth decade. The swamp buggies enter their ...

Like many quirky, homegrown traditions, swamp buggy racing started out small. In the early 1940s, about a dozen hunters in Naples, Florida, who used the strange, jeeplike vehicles to navigate the ...

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 ...

It’s been a long 10 months for swamp buggy racing legend Eddie Chesser. Fresh off his 21st Big Feature win in March, Chesser was itching to defend his title in November, which was supposed to be the ...

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

When the state you live in is covered with mass quantities of water, you make the best of it. With that said, a long time ago, Floridians who wanted to explore (and hunt) the soggy backcountry devised ...

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’ ...