American Eagle

[EagleFan344]

I went on AEB 8 times yesterday. All 8 times, red beat us by a big margin most of the time. Almost every time Red got off to a head start. I was 0-8

I wanna see a close race sometime.

[themanoftheland8]

I had a very close race yesterday in which blue actually beat red. Blue got about 1 second of a head start and somehow they won. Maybe the brakes on blue before the helix were not as strong that time?

[sfgam05]

i was there yesterday too, i rode red twice and blue twice. blue won 2 out of 4. it was actually my first time riding blue, it was fun.

[Sfagm-is-the-best]

I went on blue 5 times in a row and won all those times......

[w00dland]

See, whatever genious put a gigantic 540* helix in the middle of a RACING coaster is probably one of the dumbest people alive. Unless you have careful braking the train on the inside of the giant helix will almost always win. I've seen the ops send the blue train about a half second early out of the station which can help. But then theres no racing whatsoever until the final run of the coaster.

[EagleFan344]

See, whatever genious put a gigantic 540* helix in the middle of a RACING coaster is probably one of the dumbest people alive. Unless you have careful braking the train on the inside of the giant helix will almost always win. I've seen the ops send the blue train about a half second early out of the station which can help. But then theres no racing whatsoever until the final run of the coaster.

Yea everytime I go around that helix I think to myself "wtf was the designer thinking!"

[Raging_Bull]

See, whatever genious put a gigantic 540* helix in the middle of a RACING coaster is probably one of the dumbest people alive. Unless you have careful braking the train on the inside of the giant helix will almost always win. I've seen the ops send the blue train about a half second early out of the station which can help. But then theres no racing whatsoever until the final run of the coaster.

BUT you must realize that blue's track on the return trip is shorter. The designers aren't that stupid

[Mr. SFGAm]

It might be just me, but it feels like the small ending helix on the Blue side is tighter than on red.... couple that with there being one less hill on the Blue side and the tracks should be near the same length.

**Disclaimer** I am not the ride's designer, so I really have no clue

[kahmooza]

Also, I think it feels like the trims hit the blue train harder.

[m-force 4 ever]

yep the second helix on Blue is actually smaller then the one on Red, why? because like Raging Bull said Blue's return trip is shorter.

[sixflagsguy5]

I don't really think that the racing part of it matters. I just like the ride in general.

[sfga_24/7]

Last year i would always ride red in the front and red would always win, the red train would always beat the blue in the helix, but this year they break the red train a lot in the helix at least it felt that way to me.

[Danhockey04]

There have been very close races, they need to give blue a 1 to 2 second head start. We got on a ride that finished in an exact tie, we both finished and came up out of the final helix at the same time.