According to Race Director Stacey Newman Weldon, a kinetic sculpture race is something you have to see to believe. It’s two days of humans steering art vehicles over land and sand, through mud and water. "They’re like Frankenstein bicycles with New Orleans-style floats on top,” Newman Weldon said.
The Graand Kinetic Challenge returns to Corvallis, and racers compete for the gloryThe Graand Kinetic Challenge — spelled that way as a tribute to the spelling of the race’s founder, Raan Young — began in Corvallis in 1993 as a part of a science and arts festival called Da Vinci Days.www.opb.org