I have a question to the Roller Coaster Community that's been bothering me for a while.
Do you guys think the Formula Rossa(currently that fastest roller coaster) and the currently being built, Polar Coaster "Skyscraper"(to be the tallest roller coaster) are cheating the world Record?
Formula Rossa launches you to 150 mph, only to hit a brake run and continue at a respectable high speed. Is this cheating a world record? The ride doesn't need to be launched to 150, maybe only 90? 100? It launches to 150, to take a world record it shouldn't have. Kingda Ka NEEDS to be launched to 128 mph, so it could make the hill and continue. If the ride doesn't have enough speed, the ride can't work. Formula rossa seems like an awesome ride, i'm not arguing that! I'm simply saying the world record should go to the ride that needs that speed.
The currently under construction Polar Coaster is set to be that tallest roller coaster on earth, is it also cheating a world record? Or am I being to over critical on this one? When you think fastest and tallest, you think these records should go hand in hand, but NO.
I could live with Ring Racer being the fastest in the world( its next to a race track, kinda makes sense, I could let that go but not Formula Rossa)
I guess I just want the fight of tallest, and fastest to continue with coasters like Millennium Force or TTD, something you see and say WOW look how big that is!