Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Desert Race
Heide Park Resort (Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany)
Operating since 5/15/2007

Manufacturer - Intamin
Product - Accelerator Coaster
Designer / calculations - Ing.-Büro Stengel GmbH
Type - Steel - Launched
Propulsion - Hydraulic launch
Height - 19 metres 62.3 ft
Top speed - 102 km/h 63.4 mph
Length - 650 metres 2,132.5 ft
Duration 0:49

Train Arrangement - 2 trains with 5 cars per train. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 20 riders per train.

Desert Race has black track and sand-coloured supports. It is nearly identical to Rita, which opened in 2005 at Alton Towers in the United Kingdom. The only differences are slightly different statistics and a slightly different brake run.