Rita (roller coaster)

Rita at Alton Towers ( Alton, Staffordshire, UK) is a steel roller coaster model from coaster manufacturer Intamin Accelerator, as Rita on April 1, 2005 - Queen of Speed ​​was opened. Since 2010, it only goes under the name of Rita.

It is located in Ug Land Themes area of ​​the park and accelerates the trains within 2.5 seconds from 0 to 98 km / h The ride is based on drag racings, although the topic is rather focuses on Stone Age.

The journey

The journey starts when the train rolled out of the station and a male voice says the following sentence: Keep your heads back and hold on tight, we're counting down! Go go ... GO! ( Eng.: Lay down your head back and brace yourself, we count down ... go go GO! !). The train accelerates in 2.5 seconds from 0 to 98 km / h and passes through high-speed corners and airtime hill before reaching the braking distance that is parallel to the station. Rita often received poor reviews due to long queues and too short driving time.

The trains of Rita have five cars. In each car four people can (two rows of two people) take place. As restraint system come shoulder strap for use.

Trivia

  • The name "Rita" is the abbreviation of backward read " Alton Towers Intamin Rocket".
  • Rita is the smallest Rocket Coaster, which was built by Intamin.
  • The route of Rita was taken from the Heide-Park Desert Race almost 1:1.
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