Nürburgring | Ring°Racer | S&S Compressed Air Launch

[Snoo]

Anyone have the tanks of Dodonpa for comparison?

 

[Anonymous]

I can't find any good pictures of them, but they are 3 and are a bit taller then the station building (2 stories). But I can definitely say that they are way smaller (about half size).

 

[Emmett]

Some new photo updates of the site have been posted on RCPro.

http://www.rollercoasterpro.com/updates/nuerburgring03.28.09/index.shtml

 

[Martyn]

Check me out posting in a Roller Coaster topic...

It's the 'Ring 24 Hours this weekend, so I've got the webcams and stuff on. I was just looking at this and I basically thought "is that the bloody roller coaster there?"...

Mental.

Captured because it'll get dark at some point:

Hotlink:

http://www.nuerburgring.de/fileadmin/webcam/webcam2.jpg

 

[premal944]

^ Yes, the track is located in between the grandstand and the actual track.

 

[Anonymous]

We drove by Nurburgring today, since we had nothing better to do really, and suddenly we saw...

Loads of supports and track

Even more supports

Back into the building

Future location of the tall turnaround

It will coast along there

And finally

Turn out of the station

 

[Martyn B]

Dont suppose anyone knows anything about the cost to have a ride?

Also, clearly its not going to be open for the original June 11th date, is there a new date planned? Or is it now a case of it'll be done when its done?

 

[neo]

Hey, there’s a train sitting on the launch track!

 

[Jools]

Cool, how many trains are there, on't want another low capacity ride!

 

[Goliath123]

Wow, i didnt think it would run along a race track, thats different.

Also those tanks are insane!

 

[monkeyonatable]

Good God those tanks are freaking HUGE! When pressurized, can you imagine what the PSI is?

 

[Emmett]

Some new photos have been posted on Screamscape.

Today we’ve got some slick new pictures of the Nurburgring “RingºRacer” coaster. From what I’ve been told the ride is moving along a little slower than expected, but they hope to have it open in time for the F1 race in July 2009. The entire RingºWerk park however will not open until August 15th, but the plan right now is most likely to run the coaster on a pay-per-ride basis in preview mode until then.

 

[Snoo]

This ride has MF syndrome.. only gonna hold its title for about 2 hours.

Of course.. that is if Ferrari World ever gets going.

 

[Antinos]

It looks like there's even a decent head chopper in that third picture. Has testing started yet?

 

[rollermonkey]

Anybody else getting a good laugh out of the fact that this thing is being launched directly into a set of trim brakes?

 

[ECG]

More than a few of us have had a chuckle over that Chris. You'll need to go back a few pages to see those comments.

 

[Tony]

There's a very short testing video which sadly doesn't show the launch.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkZrP8bIxEo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themeparkreview.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ft%3D40104%26postdays%3D0%26postorder%3Dasc%26start%3D260&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

 

[marc]

Bloody hell that looks fast.

 

[Screaming Coasters]

Is that all it does?

 

[marc]

Does not do much but thats not the point of the coaster. Then again how much does Stealth do?