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Formula Rossa

Operating launch speed of 240 km/h. Guinness also prints 149.1 mph and a 4.9-second launch. Intamin prints 4.5 seconds for the same 240 km/h.

Also known as Formula Rossa roller coaster
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Ride speed

Published as 240 km/hPublished as 240 km/hPublished as 240 km/h

Operating hydraulic launch speed, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi. Guinness dates the public opening 4 November 2010 and prints 149.1 mph for the same 240 km/h. The 4.9-second and 4.5-second launch times disagree and are not stored.

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In context

  • 2.3× a cheetah's timed top speedSourced · Cheetah, 29 m/s. Sharp 1997, mean of three timed runs over 201.2 m
  • A football field in 1.4 sConstant · American football field, 100 yd (91.44 m)
  • London to New York in 23 h 13 minConstant · London to New York, 5,570 km great-circle

Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 240km/h149mph66.7m/s130knRanked figure

    Ride speed. Operating hydraulic launch speed, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi. Guinness dates the public opening 4 November 2010 and prints 149.1 mph for the same 240 km/h. The 4.9-second and 4.5-second launch times disagree and are not stored.

    Intamin prints 4.5 seconds to 240 km/h. Guinness prints 4.9 seconds. The speed agrees. The seconds do not, so no launch time is ranked.

    Official
    Guinness World Records (opens source in a new tab)Accessed
  2. 240km/h149mph66.7m/s130knRanked figure

    Absolute speed. Same 240 km/h operating speed, copied so the human-built hub can sort it.

    Not a second run. The home list ranks ride speed.

    Official
    Guinness World Records (opens source in a new tab)Accessed

Reference

Specs

Park
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi
Manufacturer
Intamin
Speed
240 km/h
Opened
4 November 2010

Context

Background

Ferrari World, Guinness and Intamin all print 240 km/h for Formula Rossa. Guinness writes that as 149.1 mph and dates the public opening 4 November 2010. RCDB lists the same ride at 149.1 mph, which is 240 km/h rounded. The ranked unit is kilometres per hour, the unit the park and the record lead with.

The launch clock does not agree. Guinness says 4.9 seconds. Intamin's 2021 note says 4.5 seconds. Both are the same 240 km/h, so the speed is the rank and neither time is stored. Guinness's fastest-rollercoaster page still names this ride. RCDB also lists a faster operating coaster that Guinness has not taken up, and that coaster is not on this list.

Checked 9 October 2026.

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