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^ Yeah that's a nice one. I can't believe that europe is trying to save their drivers while America still races in that old fashioned cars. I mean America is so strict on safety and they let their drivers suffer, while Europe let their civilians suffer and keep their drivers safe. Isn't that a weird difference.

Friday's Practise results. 1 5 F. Alonso Renault 1:15.778 37 2 2 F. Massa Ferrari 1:15.854 0:00.076 24 3 1 K. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:15.999 0:00.221 42 4 22 L. Hamilton McLaren 1:16.232 0:00.454 29 5 15 S. Vettel Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:16.298 0:00.520 42 6 4 R. Kubica BMW Sauber 1:16.317 0:00.539 35 7 23 H. Kovalainen McLaren 1:16.340 0:00.562 36 8 3 N. Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:16.458 0:00.680 43 9 6 N. Piquet Renault 1:16.543 0:00.765 39 10 9 D. Coulthard Red Bull Racing 1:16.572 0:00.794 36 11 7 N. Rosberg Williams 1:16.682 0:00.904 42 12 11 J. Trulli Toyota 1:16.743 0:00.965 43 13 14 S. Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:16.758 0:00.980 42 14 8 K. Nakajima Williams 1:17.002 0:01.224 32 15 12 T. Glock Toyota 1:17.092 0:01.314 39 16 10 M. Webber Red Bull Racing 1:17.106 0:01.328 38 17 16 J. Button Honda 1:17.244 0:01.466 37 18 21 G. Fisichella Force India F1 Team 1:17.394 0:01.616 42 19 17 R. Barrichello Honda 1:17.591 0:01.813 27 20 20 A. Sutil Force India F1 Team 1:17.868 0:02.090 33 Let's hope that it's going to be an interesting race on sunday.

This weekend Magny Cours is up. In Qualifying for GP2 Bruno Senna (Ayrton's Nephew) crashed his car and get Pole Position at the same time. Well I thought that was funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_2Ib1PrVTM

Well if you just put in the hookers and junkies it really will be Amsterdam.

I liked the old site a lot better.

I DO I DO - Goods and Gear

Looks like it's comparable to the bigger fairs in Holland.

Wow that is a huge report. Well done. You must be a very lucky man to do these business trips and combine them with a visit to a themepark. btw. That bierbank don't seem very appealing to me.

Have they done the same adjustments to the restraints as they did in SFA. I found it very uncomfortable and it did make the train ugly. Yeah they did. I believe they did that to all three Superman Ride Of Steels. I'm not sure about it but I thought they also did some adjustments to EGF and those are a little bit sleeker.

Have they done the same adjustments to the restraints as they did in SFA. I found it very uncomfortable and it did make the train ugly.

Well it wasn't too busy. For Griffon it was only a two/three train wait for last row. So we could do multiple rides. We saw one old guy while waiting for front row who collected all the badges from the castmembers. Don't you think that Griffon is so much better on the last row in stead of the first. For Alpengeist we waited 45 minutes for frontrow and 20 minutes for the rest of the train. Nessie and Big Bad Wolf were a walk on just like our first ride on Apollo's Chariot in the afternoon we waited about half an hour for front seat.

Thank you. I'm home for four days now.

Metallica - Sad but True.

May 30th Six Flags America. Our last park of the trip. We had to catch our plane at Washington Dulles at 5.30 PM so we left SFA at 1 o'clock. The park was not too busy so we could easily get our credits. Two Face was still closed due to maintainance. This park is home to one of the three Superman Ride of Steel. I was really excited to ride one of those but it was a bad ride. It was bumpy, the first hill has no airtime at all and the helixes aren't forceful and they ruined the Intamin comfort by adding some extra safety devices on the train. I'm glad that Goliath is in my home park in stead of Sros. The Sros at Six Flags New England must be much better. But anyway we did had a great time on our two week trip. Thanks for all the good comments. On to the pics. But like I mentioned it was a bad ride. On the first hill there was no air at all. Only on the way back there were three airtime hills but the ride was just too bumpy. First drop. A Goliath version of 200ft/60 meter must be good. The coaster looks amazing. Station Pic. Superman Ride of Steel. Finaly I could get on one of those. That ride operator was sitting in the test seat. Last picture of Joker's Jinx Has this coaster the same layout as Flight of Fear at Kings Island? Into this mess of track This is the part where the train will be launched. See. This was the only coaster with a line cause the kept the two middle cars closed. Does anybody know the reason for that. The station looks nice. The best coaster in the park. The BAtwing was OK. A bit better than Firehawk at Kings Island. But there was a cool slide inside the park. The waterpark was not open on weekdays. At least we didn't have to wait. This was not the best SLC of the trip. (sorry same picture) They need to trim those bushes. She didn't want to be in this picture. When I looked down the first drop I was thinking this is going to hurt but the ride was surprisingly good. ROAR Is this Disneyland? I liked the version in Kings Island. So i was kind of sad that I couldn't ride. Yeah I know it's a Vekoma. Airtime hill. Final brakes OMG first drop Only there is a nasty bump after the turnaround. This coaster was great. The wild one. The park opened at 10 but first we had to watch to this opening show. It was entertaining though. Info. Two Face still closed. The final park of our trip.

14/20

Joker's Jinx - Six Flags America

May 29th Busch Gardens Europe. What a beautiful park. The first well themed park we visited on our trip. Yeah for Griffon. Station pic. During the drop Just for the non riders. But on the last row you get much more airtime during this drop. First time we rode it on the front row. Griffon. Only the last two corners were not that great. Immelmann Alpengeist Theming. That first drop just goes on and on. Der Alpengeist. An Arrow masterpiece. It's wolfie. Boobs Beer dome Beer. Last few airtime hills. First hill. Couldn't get much good pictures. Next stop Apollo's Chariot. Great coaster with a lot of air. I really start to like those arrow coasters. and interlocking loops. It's got a huge drop over a lake. First of to Nessie

I liked Dominator a lot better. It had more speed and was smoother.

May 28th Kings Dominion Hardly any pain. and it worked out very well. This time I tried the frontseat Aquatrax. Arrow multilooper Anaconda. Bob It goes very slowly through these elements. It was real good fun but I expected something more. The ride itself was kind of a disappointment. Volcano. This coaster looks great. The park was dead. This were the only people in the park. Kings Dominion. This park is exactly the same as Kings Island... well almost. It was very bumpy and rough. The Rebel Yell was only running the right side. Only this one was very painfull. Shockwave. A Togo standup coaster the one in Canadas Wonderland was good so I was looking forward to this. Backlot stunt coaster. This time all of the effects worked... except for the chopper. Last but not least overview picture of Dominator and even fire. Wow. water, There was fog Themed topspin Dora Beginning of the ride. Cool huh? The Mansion Shooting game. Scoob. And some twisty track at the end. Corkscrew. Cobraroll You can almost touch the train here. The Dominator was great. Anaconda Hurler Grizly Rebel Yell and hard to forget. It was hard to find. The Grizly was quite different. It was the best wooden coaster in the park. This coaster had some good spots. The Hurler

I didn't know that there were no rocks before. So I didn't pay attention to them. Did we got the premier.

On the second day at Great adventure I only took a few overview pictures from the skyride. Overview #9 Overview #8 Overview #7 Overview #6 Overview #5 Overview #4 Overview #3 Overview #2 Overview #1 See here we go.

Sixflags Great Adventure, may 26-27 But i'll guess you all already knew that. It's the tallest and fastest coaster on the planet. Kingda Ka was great but operations were bad. This train took about 10 minutes to dispatch. I'll guess I'm just too tall. Those coasters are too painfull to me. 1st loop with train. That coaster looks so great. The Great American Scream Machine. Another Arrow multilooper. But Bugs didn't like that. We chased down Bugs. Daffy looks so goofy We ran into some Characters too. But I liked Talon much better. It was quite forcefull. Batman the ride. I didn't had any expectations. The cars look cool though but it's just a wild mouse. This was a coaster that did disappoint. Train rolling in. Bunnyhops. Awesome moments of airtime. The trims weren't on at least I didn't feel them. You can hardly see the train through all the supports. And it didn't disappoint. I was looking forward to this coaster. It was our first real kiddiecoaster credit of the trip. First stop was Blackbeard. No Flash Pass required though Great system. Now we could do all the coasters on one day. That 110 dollar was well spend. The park was packed. We only used it on the first day on the second day there were only a few schooltrips. First off to get our Flash Pass gold. Look at that line. We have arrived. Lifthill shot through a window. Isn't this a kind of art? Some coaster got stuck on this element. Medusa Signature shot. This is what the inside looked like. It smells like paint. Paintball shooting. Thats enough Some Arrow goodness. Well this baby runs like steel coaster. I think it's even better than the Expedition Geforce. Although you can't compare wood with steel. This is my new #1 coaster. Isn't this coaster too dangerous for the American people. It needs to be trimmed. Wow what an airtime. Thumbs up for El Toro This part of the park was nicely themed. Those signs got me so confused. Nightview. OMG two train shot. It was much better than Vekoma's flying coaster. This part of the Pretzel loop was very forcefull. Superman was my first B&M flying. Not my favorite type of coaster but I enjoyed it. I liked Dragster better though. There was nothing that this "airtime hill" could do about.

Yeah races are always interesting when rain is involved.

May 25 Dorneypark The crowds were very light today at Dorney so we took our credits and moved on. Coaster cafe. Corkscrew. Immelmann OMG zero G's Coming out of the loop Loop First drop It was more forcefull on the 3rd row than on the first or last row. Now let me take you through all of it's elements. Station pic. Talon and it has a helix through one of it's loops It's a double loop Schwartzkopf Laser It maybe not my best B&M coaster of the trip but it was a great ride. It got some cool elements. Lifthill and it's got an inversion with some excellent hangtime prior to the lifthill. Hydra was my first BM floorless See that girl. Yeah you really will get soaked. More heroes. You get much more wet on the American waterrides. In Europe they will turn of those waterfalls as soon as you get there. Heroes Splash Some of the waterrides Waterpark slides A fun little coaster with decent moments of air. Next up was Thunderhawk. Station pic. and got some nice airtime hills First drop... Those Morgan hypers are really good. Lifthill Steel Force was awesome Yeah Wild Mouse First ride of the day. They only let two people per car in it. Dorney entrance

After the big disappointment at Hershey park wee arrived at Knoebels. I've never seen such a weird park (even in Holland). It's like a big campground with some carnival rides and two excellent coasters. on to the pics Last picture of the day. Tomorrow we will be visiting Dorney Park. but still a great coaster Well not better than Phoenix Also a great ride The twister. Wow Ferris wheel ^ See It is a drivethrough dark ride. It was entertaining. So I guess it was ok. The Haunted house What happened to this carrousel Random rides. Log flume. Second missed credit of the day. Their still not finished Flying Turns No comment Station picture This was such a great coaster. It had airtime on every hill. First ride of the day: Phoenix Yeah were at Knoebles with some live entertainment which actually was quite good.