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Jon Zimmermann

Europa-Park · Wednesday 7 October

26° and dry 9:00 to 18:00 2h15 from Rotkreuz

Stage 1, Rust

Your rides in walking order, timed with walking distance and the live waits. Change the line-up in Rides, tick rides off here or there. Climbs are categorised by height like a Tour stage: Silver Star is the only HC.

    Rides

    Your stage's rides with their live standby waits, straight from Europa-Park's app feed and refreshed every two minutes. Add more from the list below and tick them off as you ride.

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    Connecting

    The route

    Filled stops are climbs. Your position shows up when you share location in the park.

    Race brief

    Getting there

    • Car: about 200 km from Rotkreuz, 2h15 via Basel and the A5. Leave by 6:30 to be at the gate for 9:00.
    • Train: Basel, Offenburg, Ringsheim, then bus 7231 to the gate. Roughly 3 to 3.5 hours. The SBB RailCoaster only runs on weekends.

    Race rules

    • VirtualLine is free and lives in the official Europa-Park app. It only works inside the park and slots go fast. It covers Voltron, Blue Fire, Wodan, Euro-Mir, Poseidon and Voletarium.
    • Single rider on Blue Fire, Wodan, Voltron, Eurosat and Arthur. Riding alone means skipping most of the queue.
    • Euro-Mir runs its final season and comes down this winter. Ride it.
    • Medium crowds. Central Swiss cantons are on autumn break, German and French schools are not. Traumatica is not on tonight; its first nights are 9 to 11 October.

    Kit

    • Running shoes, not new ones. The route below is about 10 km on foot before second laps.
    • Loose stuff stays off the big coasters. Phone zipped away or in a station locker; Silver Star and Blue Fire do not forgive pockets.
    • Bottle and sunscreen. It climbs to about 26° by 16:00, which is why the wet rides sit in the afternoon.