F1X Dubai - Premier Drifting Coaster Track?

Sadly this is the state of the f1x park now.

Coaster track is still there?

They abandon their expensive super cars and let them sit and rot, I guess roller coasters and theme parks are the next big thing.

Sadly this is the state of the f1x park now.

 

 

Sad to see a new park project abandoned like this, I hope the coaster tracks and supports get relocated to another park instead of this becoming like old Indiana Fun Park after Premier bought it to revive it.

The track is still there but I believe it is most likely beyond repair now. all the boxes with hardware in have had their contents scattered in the sand and the track is covered in sand and going rusty.

It's a very sad sight!

Well. Today a was driving round the autodrome and found more track. Some of it seems to be the drifting track but some is an orange track I haven't seen before. Here ate some photos.

All the other track is still in the original location as well!

The Blue and Light Gray Track is from Intermountain Lift for Premier, the Dark Gray Track is Stakotra for Intamin, and the Orange Track is Gerstlauer.

- Sid

Does anyone have any concept art for how exactly a drifting coaster works? I have an idea but do not exactly know.

The seats slide/pivot off the chassis to each side. There are youtube vids of the coaster in RCT3.

There is a container and I reckon it's just been opened up

So I suppose the orange track might be the euro fighter that was supposed to be at the park but everyone reckoned had been sold somewhere else!

So it's going to be a shuttle coaster right? I was hoping for something like an inverted impulse coaster but not an inverted version of it.

To the best of my knowledge this is one of the three coasters that were bought for the f1x park that was never built.

Interesting to see that the track is still here. I wonder how much damage having it sit out in the elements unprotected and unmaintained for all this time will do. I'm really hopeful that the ride can be installed somewhere else.

It would be nice if someone could find a good home for these unbuilt rides.

^^ Considering this in a desert environment, I don't think the track has to many issues due to the fact that there is very little water around to rust the track.

This new track is in great condition because it has been in a container. The rest that has been out in the open for two years is in a dreadful state. I believe the maintenance manager from Ferrari world went to have a look but decided it was beyond repair about a year ago!

Electronics aside, if they track isn't physically damaged it would be 100% salvageable. Its basically been in a sand blaster for 2 years slowly removing the paint, but at the same time also removing corrosive elements as well. If they took the track and had it cleaned (sand blasted) and repainted, it'd be good as new. That still; however, is probably more work or money people wanted to put into the project.

I did wonder if the blue track was part of the same coaster, or maybe perhaps the one in the tower in this pic?

Anybody else notice that the single spike coaster looks sort of like the design for Superman @ SFMM... interesting. Wonder why a park would make a ride with that simple a design when they could go for a more complicated thrilling layout, such as the Mr. Freeze rides by premier.

Also, wasn't the "drifting coaster" in the Wild DLC for RCT3?

Here's a couple more photos taken today.

Looks like the orange track has had a car run on it.

Presumably this would have been at the factory for testing purposes?

It's interesting that there are no electronics or hardware from this container. All that must have been in the other containers.

^ A train hasn't operated on that track, it's just where the primer/wheel stripes has weathered away.

- Sid

Boo.

^Boo who?

"Boo" in the sense that this ride still has yet to be installed?

Boo in the sense that they haven't even run a train round it at the factory to test. And yes. All the track is still there covered in sand!

The inevitable is now starting to happen to the track.