{"id":298622,"date":"2026-06-06T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298622\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T20:14:11","slug":"more-track-and-motors-added-to-fast-and-furious-hollywood-drift-at-universal-studios-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298622\/","title":{"rendered":"More Track and Motors Added to Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews started installing track on the \u201cbunny hop\u201d coaster element of Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Florida, as seen in new photos by photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bioreconstruct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">@bioreconstruct on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift Construction<a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"bioreconstruct\/x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-1-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"More Track and Motors Added to Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1439220\"\/><\/a>bioreconstruct\/x<\/p>\n<p>The bunny hop is a series of small hills, which guests will \u201chop\u201d over before heading up the 170-foot spike. <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/06\/bunny-hop-coaster-element-fast-and-furious-hollywood-drift-universal-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Supports were installed<\/a> a few days ago. The new track is at the beginning of the element.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"bioreconstruct\/x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-5-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1436\" data-id=\"1439216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-5-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"More Track and Motors Added to Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1439216\"\/><\/a>bioreconstruct\/x<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"bioreconstruct\/x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-3-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1436\" data-id=\"1439218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-3-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"More Track and Motors Added to Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1439218\"\/><\/a>bioreconstruct\/x<\/p>\n<p>First, there\u2019s a stretch of flat track, where cars will accelerate. The track then curves upward.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"bioreconstruct\/x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-2-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-2-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"More Track and Motors Added to Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal Studios Florida\" class=\"wp-image-1439222\"\/><\/a>bioreconstruct\/x<\/p>\n<p>The temporary plywood boxes in the background of the above photos are where a switch track will be. Guests will pass over the switch track after descending the spike.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"bioreconstruct\/x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-10-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-10-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1439221\"\/><\/a>bioreconstruct\/x<\/p>\n<p>On the opposite end of the Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift construction zone, bioreconstruct spotted motors on the track near the load station. A yellow arrow points to a motor in the picture above. The track slopes slightly into the loading area.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" data-caption=\"bioreconstruct\/x\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-9-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/uor-ff-construction-06.06.26-9-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1439217\"\/><\/a>bioreconstruct\/x<\/p>\n<p>The motors, seen in close-up here, will control the movement of the cars as they approach the station.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2026\/01\/breaking-fast-furious-coaster-replacing-rip-ride-rockit-supercharged-closing-permanently\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Fast and Furious: Supercharged will close<\/a>\u00a0in 2027, ahead of the new coaster\u2019s opening. The first version of Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift will open at Universal Studios Hollywood this year.<\/p>\n<p>Are you excited for the new Fast and Furious roller coaster? Let us know on social media.<\/p>\n<p>For more Universal Studios news from around the world, follow Universal Parks News Today on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniNewsToday\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Twitter<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniversalParksNewsToday\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uninewstoday\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">Instagram<\/a>. For Disney Parks news, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/category\/parks-resorts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" aria-describedby=\"external-link-warning\">WDWNT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews started installing track on the \u201cbunny hop\u201d coaster element of Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift at Universal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33529,65579,47758,64378,123907,62109,139,141,140,2749,6114],"class_list":["post-298622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-fast-furious-hollywood-drift","tag-fast-furious-hollywood-drift-construction","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-fast-and-furious-hollywood-drift","tag-fast-and-furious-hollywood-drift-construction","tag-hollywood-drift","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-universal-orlando-resort","tag-universal-studios-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}