Green Light for the ring racer - but only in the spring
Nuerburg No more experiments: After an accident in July and September, the roller coaster "Ring Racer" at the Nurburgring taken until the spring of 2010. The CEO said the park's "Ring Factory", Andreas Stickel.
The economic damage of the Nürburgring GmbH is to take the roller coaster manufacturer, the company "S & S Power" from the U.S.. It was settled on penalties in the contract. Since the purchase price for the Coaster, 12 million euros, had not been paid in full, you dispose of surplus. Have been withheld, according to Minister Hendrik Hering (SPD), 2.3 million U.S. dollars. Such penalties have been made against the manufacturer claims already.
The revenue lost by the failure of the "Ring Racer" will be the bottom line is considerably higher than the previously calculated 600 000 Euros: The amount was calculated only until the end, put herring in a clear economic committee of the Diet. "You can safely say that there will be one million," said FDP Deputy Günter Eymael. He also asked about the reputation of the roller coaster builder. Herring explained that the 90 percent needed to keep the land owned by Nürburgring GmbH at the tender in the spring of 2007 to the procurement rules for public procurement and the lowest of three bidders awarded grant. "S & S Power" has a reference list of coaster tracks presented in several countries.
More than lost revenues, the maker employed at the ring and the Diet committee, however, the question of the cause of the second ring of 3 Racer Accident September. These seven people were injured. Two of them are still under medical treatment, two continued to complain of health problems caused by the deafening blast in the best sense of the word in the accident.
That there were casualties, cleared the ring until days later. On the question of the CDU called herring to justify communication delays within the ring was next Ltd. Meanwhile, the manufacturing company, TÜV Nord and TÜV Rheinland, TÜV Süd also involved as a consultant to clarify how it came to failure of one of the three compressed air cylinders. First results are expected in early October. Because of the lengthy procurement of spare parts of the trial operation until the end of the year may already be resumed.
The accidents in July and September, according to Herring, "various causes, but the same error" - the programming in the software system. Even without a coaster, customers must pay the "Ring work" since the weekend, the full ticket price of 19.50 euros. There are per purchased ticket for one free ticket for a return visit.
This has also been known to the General Council Meeting: Since the beginning of the expansion project "Nürburgring 2009" has the personnel changes accelerated in the Ring GmbH. This year alone there were 47 Substitution by fluctuation in a total of 147 employees in the past 38 or 37 Was terminated during the current year so far eight people, in the three previous years, 12 to 15
Four of the retired employees are still working as a consultant for the ring. That flowed in the past three years, fees of 1.54 million euros, of which only 2009, a good half a million.