The race began in 1969, when Ferndale sculptor Hobart Brown challenged artist Jack Mays to a race down Mainstreet. Their kinetic vehicles started a 40-year tradition that has spread to Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Colorado, Baltimore, Maryland and Perth, Australia. Here are its basic principles:
- Develop and encourage artistic human-powered vehicle technology.
- Promote and encourage instruction in kinetic art and engineering for all age groups.
- Create public art, in all media, including but not limited to visual art, aural art, dance forms, creative dramatics, poetry, lyric arts and emerging media.
- Sponsor special events involving public performance of any or all of the above art forms from all parts of the community.
- Directly engage in and provide vehicles and facilities so that others may engage in the promotion of the arts.
- Demonstrate the benefits of artistic human-powered vehicle technology including: health and well being, reduction of non-renewable fuel sources, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and encouraging critical thinking about global human impact.
- Directly promote interchange on artistic human-powered vehicle technology between the first and third worlds.
- Best Speed
- Best Engineering
- Best Art
- ACE -- for completing the race at a higher level of competition with stringent rules
- Golden Dinosaur -- the sculpture with the most memorable (or first) breakdown
- Worst Honorable Mention -- for the sculpture whose half-baked theoretical "engineering" did not deter its pilot from the challenge of the race
- National Mediocre Champion -- the entry with a finishing time closest to the average, once all time penalties are taken into account.
- Golden Flipper -- the most interesting water entry
- Best Pit Crew
- Best Costume(s)
- Best Bribes
- Pilots' Choice
- People's Choice
- Spirit of the Founder
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