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Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift's Final Track Sections Went In Before Sunrise, Completing the Coaster's Full Layout
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Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift's Final Track Sections Went In Before Sunrise, Completing the Coaster's Full Layout

Michael Travels
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The last gap in the Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift track closed up before the sun came up Monday morning. WDW News Today reported that aerial photographer bioreconstruct shared the images on X, and that the final sections were placed before sunrise at Universal Studios Florida.

That gap was in the tall inversion. On Sunday it was still missing its highest track segments. By Monday morning it was installed and complete.

The completed upper arc of a roller coaster inversion, light gray track on dark blue supports, rising above soundstage rooftops against a flat gray pre-dawn sky, with a second lower arc of track behind it

The tall inversion, photographed from outside the park after the final segments went in. Photo: @bioreconstruct via WDW News Today

What the finished layout does

WDW News Today lays out the ride sequence: trains climb the 170 foot spike, which turns 180 degrees near the top, then reverse and come back down through a sliding switch track. Past that switch they hit the very tall inversion that just received its final pieces. The layout also includes a second, lower inversion that trains go through on the way back to the station.

Attractions Magazine reports that the 170 foot spike will make Hollywood Drift the tallest coaster at Universal Orlando, ahead of the 155 foot top hat on Jurassic World VelociCoaster and the 167 foot Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit it is replacing.

A wide pre-dawn view of several roller coaster track elements, including a tall arch on blue supports at center and an angled spike element at right, rising above a long dark soundstage roofline, with a yellow lit warehouse building and tall light poles in the foreground

A wide ground level view of the coaster's tallest track elements clearing the soundstage roofs. WDW News Today identifies the completed tall inversion at the center of the frame, the spike element at right, and a lower inversion in the same frame. Photo: @bioreconstruct via WDW News Today

Track complete is not the same as ride ready

A completed layout is a real milestone, but plenty of work is left. The aerial photos show the lagoon side of the site still largely unpaved, with landscaping and permanent walkways not yet installed there. Universal has announced Hollywood Drift opens in 2027, without a specific date.

Daytime aerial photo of light gray coaster track crossing over and under itself above closely spaced dark blue support columns, with large park buildings along the edges of the frame, bare dirt below and construction equipment scattered across the site

An aerial of the site from Sunday, with track threading between the soundstages above closely spaced blue support columns, and much of the ground below still bare dirt and equipment. Photo: @bioreconstruct via WDW News Today

The clock on Supercharged

The track milestone comes two weeks before the other Fast & Furious attraction at the park goes away. Fast & Furious - Supercharged permanently closes on August 17, 2026. Its last day of operation is Sunday, August 16.

Hollywood Drift replaces Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit, which closed in August 2025.

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Image credits: all photos by @bioreconstruct, via WDW News Today.

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