Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso Ride World’s Fastest Roller Coaster at Abu Dhabi’s Ferrari World theme park

I use to be a sucker for extreme rollercoasters and even the Top Trill Dragster coaster at Cedar Point that launches you to 120mph in a matter of 4 seconds. The Italians have now topped that record and beat it with the launch of the main attraction at the Ferrari World Theme Park in Abu Dhabi. After all of the hype and speculation of the main ride at this park it is finally open and ready to literally ‘take people for a ride of their life’. One of the first to take that ride is Ferrari’s F1 race car drivers Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso as shown in the video below. This is an astonishing ride reaching speeds of 149mph! Don’t they look scared in the video when this ‘virtual Ferrari’ launches? Enjoy!

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Felipe Massa + 458 Italia = Worst Promo Video Ever

Felipe Massa is back at Ferrari after a major accident in July in Hungary after a spring from a Brawn GP car came loose and flew up off of the track to hit Massa in the brow while he was traveling at 150MPH. After suffering heavy injuries to his skull and nearly losing his left eye, Massa has been out of the driver’s seat ever since undergoing several surgeries and taking the slow road to recovery. Not surprisingly, Massa’s accident was one of the worst since the death of Ayrton Senna at Imola in 1994.

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