Nemesis Inferno

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Nemesis Inferno
Inferno's Vertical Loop
Location	Thorpe Park
Park Section	Calypso Quay
Type	Steel - Inverted
Status	Open
Opened	April 5, 2003
Manufacturer	Bolliger & Mabillard
Designer	Werner Stengel
Model	Inverted Coaster
Track layout	Inverted
Lift/launch system	Chain lift hill
Height	95 feet (29 m)
Drop	95 feet (29 m)
Length	2,461 feet (750.1 m)
Max speed	47.8 mile per hour (76.9 km/h)
Inversions	4
Duration	1:43
Max G force	4.5
Nemesis Inferno at Theme Park Junkies
Nemesis Inferno at RCDB
Pictures of Nemesis Inferno at RCDB

Nemesis Inferno is a steel inverted roller coaster made by Bolliger & Mabillard of Switzerland. It begins with a small drop into a misty volcano and then goes into the lift hill. When it has reached the top, B&M's favourite pre-drop element comes in and then it does a large swooping drop and straight into a vertical loop. Then it goes straight into a zero-G roll and then swoops back into 2 interlocking corkscrews. It then does 2 turns and then finally goes into a brake run. The ride is themed around an erupting torpical volcano. It ties in closely with Detonators theme, as a pirate cove. The coaster is located in the Calypso Quay area of Thorpe Park in Surrey, England.

The ride is based on the similar design of its sister ride Nemesis at Alton Towers. It shares the same name, linked with the similarities of the first loop. On the final helix, riders experience a powerful 4.5 g.

[edit] Trivia

Nemesis Inferno is the only inverted rollercoaster to feature a set of interlocking corkscrews.
The pre-lift section through the tunnel is the longest on any B&M coaster in the world.
Nemesis Inferno is the 2nd slowest B&M inverted coaster in the world with a speed of just 47.8mph.
The ride was featured on Channel 4's Balls of steel programme, where the annoying devil threw puke on riders during the ride. The front middle two seats where removed for this, for a camera, and was taken over 3 runs, and used both trains.
The record 'throughput' (most guests on the ride in one hour) was set by Paul Holloway in summer 2006 with a total of 1388. This beat the previous set record of 1376 by Andrew Harland from the same season.