Silver Star: B&M monster for Europa Park!

With the new B&M speedcoaster Silverstar to be built in Europa Park (Rust, Germany) European Parks are getting in the mood for Hypercoasters. This will be the 4th hypercoaster that will be built in Europe after the Big One (Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Great Brittain) Colossos (Heide Park, Soltau, Germany and Expedition G-Force (Holiday Park, Hassloch, Germany and the third built in Germany. This is B&M's 4th speedcoaster to be built in the world.

The rollercoaster is the result of a cooperation between Europa Park and Mercedes. That is why the coaster is called Silver Star.
The theming of the rollercoaster will be that of the racing world, with real racing cars, pit boxes and a Formula one Commando Stand and many more. We will see that when it's ready. One thing can be said now, there's always great theming in Europa Park, they are very good at that. The colour of the track will be silver track and black pilars.

               
                                              This is the layout of Silverstar                                        

Here are some statistics about this coaster.

Height:         73 m.
1st Drop:      65 m.
2nd Drop:     49 m.  
3rd Drop:      41 m.
Length:         1620 m
Top speed:    127 km/h
Trains:          3 with each 36 seats
Ride time:     4 minutes.
Capacity:       Approx. 1750 persons per hour
Costs:           25 Million DeutschMarks
Constructor:  Bolliger & Mabillard

Here are some early construction pictures:

Thanks to : http://mypage.bluewin.ch/europapark/silverstar.htm
and: http://www.europa-park.de/deut/sites/sonstiges/baustellen/silverstar/bilder.html

More info will follow when the construction continues.

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