New Ring°Racer Video Shows the World's Fastest Coaster in Action
Finally, more images and a video has been posted on the S&S web site of the Ring°Racer coaster coming to Nürburgring in Germany. It's called 'F1 Coaster' on their web site, but there's little doubt that this an animated video of Ring°Racer. When it opens in June 2009, it will surpass Six Flags Great Adventure's Kingda Ka which tops out at a blistering 128 mph. Ring°Racer will push the envelope even further with a top speed of 134 mph (217 km/h).
The world's new fastest coaster will have an appropriate home. According to wikipedia, Nürburgring, known as simply "The Ring" by enthusiasts, is a motorsport race track in Nürburg, Germany. Like the infamous Autobahn it includes public acceess roads where anyone with a registered car can drive as fast as they want.
Ring°Racer Takes the Crown
This will be the first time that I can remember the Germans holding a major roller coaster world record. Unlike, the 1990's, I doubt this will kick off another coaster arms race due to the state of the economy, but you never know. Kingda Ka will still hold the height record and is so insanely fast that I doubt Six Flags will blink. Besides, the general public that makes up the majority of the park's patrons will have never heard of Ring°Racer.
Check out this pov video of the ring°racer at Nurburgring:
The ride looks pretty short, but so are Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster and Kingda Ka. Obviously, the real draw here is going to be that insane launch of 0 to 134 mph in only 2.5 seconds. Kingda Ka doesn't reach its top speed until 3.5 seconds. The video can't possibly to the launch justice, but it will likel become legendary. Well, at least until it's surpassed by another record breaking roller coaster.
What's Your Take?
What do you think of this future top speed champ? Is it enough for you to hop on a plane to Germany? Any Germans out there excited for Ring°Racer? Leave a comment below.
5 comments:
Hopefully I will be able to ride it, and to be honest, this looks more interesting than TTD or KK, mainly because of the turns and banks at such high speeds.
Andrew, the train is trimmed seconds after the launch. Therefore the turns should not be so fast... but anyway, if the trains were not slowed down, the element would be horribly vilent (it's so low fromo the ground).
Hmm, then it seems more like it's a 3 second thrill ride. The launch is intense, but mathematically, Dononpa (I think that's what it is named), in Japan, goes 0-107 in under 2 seconds, and still has a vertical drop. Still, this ride does look fun and interesting, it's just too bad that there isn't that many rides around where it's being built.
This ride looks even more gimmicky than TTD and KK. The fact that they slow down the train just after the launch almost seems like they're cheating KK out of the fastest title.
I personally wouldn't go out of my way to ride this; it's not really much aside from the launch.
Looks pretty lame. In my opinion, once you've ridden one of these coasters, you've ridden them all. Who can really tell much of a difference between Top Thrill Dragster and Kingda Ka anyway? And what's the 10 mph difference between Kingda Ka and RingRacer going to mean to anybody besides the stastistically-inclined? It's almost like worrying about the difference between $950 and $960.
Whatever.
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