Apollo's Chariot - Busch Gardens

http://www.chrisjonesbaritone.com/ Robert and I on one of the most fun rollercoasters ever, sitting in the 3rd seat from the front. This is the ride on which Fabio got his face smashed off with a flying Goose on opening day in 1998! Seriously.

"After riders hear the dispatch send-off, "Thank you, and enjoy your voyage to the sun on the wings of Apollo's Chariot," they climb a 170 foot lift hill. At the peak, riders drop down a few feet in a pre-drop. The pre-drop serves to reduce the stress and pull of the chain. After the pre-drop, riders drop 210 feet toward a water-filled ravine at a 65 degree angle and reaching speeds of 73 mph. Notably, the first drop is actually longer than height of the lift, the drop being 210 feet, and the height of the roller coaster 170 feet high. At the end of the ravine, riders go up a second airtime hill with a 131 foot drop. The riders then enter a short tunnel at the bottom of the second drop. Then after the third hill, they go down a 144 foot drop, which tilts sideways as it descends. Then there is a large, upward helix which pulls 4.1 Gs. Coming out of the helix, there is a small drop, then a climbing right turn into the block brake. A sudden dive off the block leads into a bunny hop parallel to the ride's initial plunge. Then, Apollo's Chariot features an overbanked turn under the lift hill, just dodging one of the support columns. Then the ride turns sharply right and at the end the riders go into a camel hump hill and drop into a ditch where the on-ride photo is located. Then the train gently hits the final brakes and after a u-turn, the riders return to the station."

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• apollo's
• chariot
• busch
• gardens
• williamsburg
• improv
• comedy
• divoboy
• chris
• jones

[TheSilentkoala]

Pause at 0:05

[mirptwirp]

You guys make this roller coaster sound scary... I don't think I want to get on this now. xD

[TheRaddude10]

type in Rafael's First Coaster

[TheRaddude10]

my friend nearly had a heart attack at the pre hill

[MsSugarpie123]

@TheSilentkoala lol

[alexkills]

Those turning dives are the perfect mixture of airtime and/or holy shit. Anyone who rides this earns an honorary 3 testicle from God himself.

[legomation24]

Just a correction in the desc.... Fabio rode the ride in March of 99 (the year it opened), not 98. No big deal though. I LOVE Hyper coasters!

[mirptwirp]

@Haloreach96 Oh yeahh.... it's like my favorite roller coaster there! I went to frontier city about 3 months ago.

[Haloreach96]

@mirptwirp dude its not its so fun

[dfjohn07]

@466Gas124 they probably didn't feel like waiting in the longer line for front seat. At least that's my explanation for sitting in the middle on this ride.