[bigjr872]

If it is themed to Dale Earnhardt, they should have a museum in the entrance or exit of the ride. a museum is something different for the park.

[coasterbruh]

If it is themed to Dale Earnhardt, they should have a museum in the entrance or exit of the ride. a museum is something different for the park.

arent they building one in charlotte already...

[Diamondback FOF]

Maybe my sketches using the yellow supports got everybody used to the idea!

The supports will come already painted, numbered and ready to go. Not sure why they repainted the Top Gun ones 10 years ago, must have been a last-minute decision.

As far as "track" pieces... Diamondback has like 193 of them, this should have a similar number.

Dimaondback had 141 track pieces.

[Jonathan]

Figured you guys would want to see this to stir the pot a bit more. The press invite, similar to the Kings Dominion one:

[coasterbruh]

does anyone know where I can view the kd one...i havent seen it...

[John43221]

Diamondback had 141 track pieces.

Yep, you're right (though I meant to say 139 and dyslexia kicked in). I fixed my original post.

[roxxxtar]

If it is themed to Dale Earnhardt, will the seatbelts be installed incorrectly?

[Jonathan]

does anyone know where I can view the kd one...i havent seen it...

I haven't actually seen it either, but earlier in this thread WindsWalker posted this:

Ok, this is about Kings Dominion but bear with me as I think there's a connection.

KDFansite.com's admin Clint Novak recieved his invitation to KD's media day event. In the invitation it teases about their new coaster. Aside from the generic teasers there was one very interesting detail: the invitation was shaped like a race car; a race car with the number 15 on it.

Perhaps our sister's new ride is more closely related to ours than we've thought?

[coasterbruh]

ok ok...well I guess the number on it means the number coaster it is...but its interesting its red and black...with a little white

I take that back...kd only has currently 13 coasters and the new one would make 14...

back to the batcave!

[WindsWaker]

Figured you guys would want to see this to stir the pot a bit more. The press invite, similar to the Kings Dominion one:

Well if that doesn't scream NASCAR, I don't know what does. I'm not going to lie, I'm a tiny bit disappointed. Oh well. Cool looking invite, though.

[Jonathan]

Not necessarily NASCAR specifically, but certainly racing of some sort.

[drpeppa93]

If it is themed to Dale Earnhardt, will the seatbelts be installed incorrectly?

was that supposed to be funny? because joking about someone's death isn't the least bit humorous

[The New Santa]

Not necessarily NASCAR specifically, but certainly racing of some sort.

That is definately nascar. I beleive that number 13 was the number of some famous driver but I might be wrong.

Going off topic, this is my first post on carowinds connection so I apologize for any mistakes that I might have made.

[chunkyskunk]

This is veering a bit off the current day's new clue but I wanted to pass this along to see if anyone else has noticed this. I was at the park Thursday and while riding Afterburn I noticed, while going up the lift hill, that the footers for our assumed hammerhead turnaround area seems rather narrow. I noticed this last week also when I was on Afterburn. Being the Google Earth geek that I am, I zoomed in and measured a few turnarounds of various similar styles. I am measuring the widest part of the turnaround.
Nitro (SFGAdv) Apprx 90 feet wide at widest part.
Goliath (SFOG) Apprx 155 feet wide at widest part.
Goliath (SGOT) Apprx 110 feet wide at widest part.
Raging Bull (SFGA) Aprrox 95 feet wide at widest part.
Now looking at the footers near the south gate, they do not appear to be even close to the 90' mark. Also, to give you an idea, the track at the lowest elevation entering and the lowest elevation of the track after exiting the batwing (tunnel section) of Afterburn is around 50' apart. Now these measurements are approximent but fairly close. I have zoomed in on Google Earth before and measured known landmarks and the accuracy is very good. I have not been and walked around the construction fence . It may just be an illusion and once you get down at the fence at those footers, then you can clearly see they are farther apart then they appear on the lift hill. Any thoughts on this from anyone?

[chunkyskunk]

If it is themed to Dale Earnhardt, will the seatbelts be installed incorrectly?

was that supposed to be funny? because joking about someone's death isn't the least bit humorous

I was thinking the same thing.