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Apollo's Chariot
Steel Hyper Coaster at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia. Opened 1999.
- Height
- 170 ft
- Drop
- 210 ft
- Top speed
- 73 mph
- Length
- 4,882 ft
- Inversions
- 0
- Ride time
- 2 min 15 s
- Designer
- Bolliger & Mabillard
Apollo's Chariot is a steel hyper coaster in the Festa Italia section of Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard built it, with the layout engineered by Werner Stengel's firm, and it opened in March 1999 as the first Hyper Coaster model that Bolliger & Mabillard produced.
The ride climbs a 170-foot chain lift hill and then drops 210 feet at an angle of 65 degrees. It reaches a top speed of 73 mph and covers 4,882 feet of track in about two minutes and 15 seconds, with no inversions. After the first drop, the layout is a series of hills built for airtime; the park says the drops add up to 825 feet. Riders sit four across in elevated seats, and each of the three trains has nine cars carrying 36 people. The park lists a minimum rider height of 52 inches.
The coaster takes its name and theme from the Greco-Roman myth of the sun god Apollo and his chariot.
Sources
- rcdb.com/531.htm (Opened March 27, 1999; Bolliger & Mabillard Hyper Coaster; height 170 ft, drop 210 ft, length 4,882 ft, speed 73 mph, 0 inversions, duration 2:15.)
- buschgardens.com/williamsburg/roller-coasters/apollos-chario... (Park page: 73 mph, more than 4,882 feet of track, combined 825 feet of drops, minimum rider height 52 inches.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%27s_Chariot (First Bolliger & Mabillard Hyper Coaster; Festa Italia; opened March 27, 1999.)
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