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Fury 325

Carowinds prints up to 95 mph. RCDB prints 95 mph. Coasterpedia prints 152.9 km/h, the same figure.

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Ride speed

Published as 95 mphPublished as 95 mphPublished as 95 mph

Operating speed, Carowinds. The park says up to 95 mph. Coasterpedia's 152.9 km/h matches 95 mph.

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In context

  • 1.5× a cheetah's timed top speedSourced · Cheetah, 29 m/s. Sharp 1997, mean of three timed runs over 201.2 m
  • A football field in 2.2 sConstant · American football field, 100 yd (91.44 m)
  • London to New York in 36 h 26 minConstant · London to New York, 5,570 km great-circle

Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

This list

Why it's so fast

A coaster is fast because it spends height, or a launch, on speed. A lift hill stores the energy as altitude. A launch spends it with a motor, hydraulics or magnets in a few seconds.

  1. Height or a launch

    Going up is how a traditional coaster stores the ride. Coming down trades that height for speed. A launched coaster skips the slow climb and accelerates on the flat.

  2. The speed the park prints

    The ranked figure is the operating speed the operator and the databases agree on. A theoretical simulation is not swapped in.

The launched extreme is Formula Rossa.

This is how the category works. A note written for this entry appears here once it is in the database.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 153km/h95mph42.5m/s82.6knRanked figure

    Operating speed, Carowinds. The park says up to 95 mph. Coasterpedia's 152.9 km/h matches 95 mph.

    Verified
    Carowinds (opens source in a new tab)

Reference

Specs

Park
Carowinds
Manufacturer
Bolliger & Mabillard
Speed
95 mph
Height
325 ft

Context

Background

Carowinds says Fury 325 reaches speeds of up to 95 mph. RCDB lists Fury 325 at 95 mph. Coasterpedia lists 152.9 km/h. 95 mph converts to 152.9 km/h at one decimal, so the three accounts are one figure. The ranked unit is miles per hour.

The park page's specification tile shows a zero where the speed should be. The sentence in the ride description is the figure that matches the two databases, so that sentence is the rank.

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