I spent quite a few weeks in Dubai teaching drilling software. One day, one trainer came into the class wearing a traditional white garment and a fashionable red cap, with a label “Ferrari World”. The color contrast enticed me to ask what it is. Suddenly, all students started talking about the theme park close to Abu Dhabi, which they visited during the weekend.” “You should go. It has the fastest roller coaster in the world, simulating F1 race car!” They all got excited.
Sure enough, I went there on the following weekend and had a whale of a time. It was about 1 hour drive from Dubai. Human being is always dreaming to achieve higher speed. We were fascinated by Jamaican Usain Bolt’s performance at 100 meters sprint event at the 2012 Olympic Games (Olympic record time of 9.63 seconds). In 2012 Olympic Games, there are 302 events and I counted that 124 of them are speed related.
We not only try to run fast, but also invent machines or tool to enable us to acquire higher speeds, including bike, car, boat, air place ,etc. But what I experienced in Ferrari World is so extraordinary that I will remember it forever. Here are the 2 pictures of the park and ride.
Ferrari World
The Thrill of Roso - The world’s Fastest Roller Coaster
The world’s fastest roller coaster has seats like those of F1 cockpit. We all had to wear safety goggles as we blasted away 52 m into the sky. The track is 2.07 km with sharpest turn of 70 degree. The most shocking trending is at the beginning when the coaster reached 100 km/ hr. within 2 seconds and then 240 km/h in 4.9 seconds, with 4.8 gs. I never felt so sudden and strong push on my back before. Then I felt the wind, trying to tear my skin off my face. That was the first time I felt the goggles was extremely necessary. Scream was our speech. Adrenalin rushed into blood. The world was falling behind us. We died and came back to life as we crossed the fishing line like heroes.
When we resumed our training next day, I echoed their expression in Ferrari World. I also added “Now that you have equipped yourselves with our cementing software, it is like if you are a driver in a Ferrari!"