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- Participants from all over the nation deck out people-powered rides for downtown Detroit drag.
- It was that kind of day Saturday at the first Red Bull Dragsterday in downtown Detroit.
- Grown folks dressed as cowboys, priests and pirates raced wacky contraptions up Woodward, a drag better known for cruisers than carts gussied up like spaceships and cows.
- Underneath the zaniness was some semi-serious science: 32 teams from Georgia to Oregon raced people-powered machines whose speeds sometimes topped 30 mph.
- There's hard work beneath the silliness, said Nelson, an automotive engineer who spent 40 hours building his machine.
Read the full story at: The Detroit News
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