Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is looking more like a full coaster by the week, with newly shared aerial photos showing major track installation at Universal Studios Florida.

Fast & Furious Coaster Update

New photos from X user @bioreconstruct show the latest progress on the upcoming coaster. The most noticeable change is the amount of light gray track now installed through the central portion of the construction site, especially around the sweeping curve near Hard Rock Cafe.

In our last update, the biggest new development was the installation of large blue A-frame supports inside a curved section of track. At that point, those supports had only recently gone vertical, and additional track still had to be added through the area. In the newest aerial photos, those A-frames are now surrounded by a much more developed run of track, helping define one of the ride’s broader turn elements.

Several blue supports now carry a long, curving stretch of gray track through the middle of the site. From above, the coaster’s layout is becoming much easier to read, with the track threading through multiple support groups, bending around the work zone, and passing near the Hard Rock Cafe building. One section rises along the side of the restaurant facade, where crews continue working with cranes and lifts below.

The massive spike element remains one of the most prominent features on the site. Universal previously described the spike as sending riders nearly 17 stories into the air over the outskirts of Universal CityWalk. The newest photos show the spike structure still standing over the lagoon-side edge of the project, with more track and support pieces staged nearby. The 170-foot-tall spike will be a dead-end, forcing the ride vehicles to stop and change direction.

The lower bunny hop and speed hill area also appears more developed than in earlier June photos. Track is slowly being added to this smaller hill section leading toward the spike, with visible direction-of-travel markings and work suggesting launch or drive components in this portion of the layout. In the new aerial views, this area is now part of a more continuous-looking stretch of coaster track, though multiple gaps and unfinished sections remain.

Several of the coaster’s banking turns, positioned at varying heights, have also been installed around the track’s path closest to the spike. Several blue rectangular structures can be seen in the center of several banking turns, which Bioreconstruct speculates may be refrigeration units for cooling fins that will run along the block brake section of track positioned overtop.

A wider aerial view shows just how much of the former Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit footprint is now occupied by Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift. Track now stretches from the back-of-house side of the site toward the lagoon and CityWalk edge, with the layout wrapping around open dirt areas, construction trailers, and equipment staging zones. While the coaster still has plenty of missing pieces, the overall path is becoming significantly clearer as disparate sections see continued expansion.

The staging area remains packed with additional coaster components. One photo shows flatbed trucks loaded with track pieces and large blue support columns, while more gray track segments and support parts are arranged on the ground nearby. Judging by the staging area alone, crews still have a substantial amount of installation ahead before the coaster’s full circuit is in place.

Fast and Furious: Hollywood Drift replaces Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit and is expected to open in 2027. One version of the coaster, however, will open soon at Universal Studios Hollywood.

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