Furius Baco is not just about speed. Do you want to read some interesting facts behind the construction of the ride?
Furius Baco is not just about speed. Do you want to read some interesting facts behind the construction of the ride?
The history of Furius Baco can be wholly and artistically described in an “Auca”, adeeply-rooted form of expression in Catalonia in which the story is narrated in verse through a series of vignettes. Furius Baco was invented on a farmstead belonging to the Hereu family, where the heir wanted to build a machine to transport barrels of wine at high speed in order to increase the production of the vineyards. Something goes wrong, and Manàs, the inventor's monkey, readjusts the machine's speed, launching Furius Baco at a speed of 135 km/h from 0 to 3.5 seconds.
Building Furius Baco was somewhat complicated owing to the length of the track and the different terrains that the catapult passes through (tunnels, ditches, forests, vineyards, the Mediterrània lake) and as such, it was the most technically complex ride at the resort at that moment.
To give you an idea of the complexity of the design, the driving mechanism behind Furius Baco is similar to that of an aircraft carrier catapult.
