Fury 325 is a steel roller coaster located at Carowinds amusement park in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, Fury 325 opened to the public on March 28, 2015.
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There's a barrel turn that's 190 feet tall, S-curves, horseshoe turns, a dive underneath the park's new visitors' bridge, camel-back hills that gives riders “air time,” and a double helix maneuver where the train turns back on itself. The only thing that the Fury 325 won't do is turn riders upside down.
Records. Fury 325 set new records and came close to breaking others when it opened in 2015. It became the world's tallest giga coaster – a roller coaster that exceeds 300 feet (91 m) in height – surpassing Steel Dragon 2000 at Nagashima Spa Land by 6.7 feet (2.0 m).
The first crack was discovered in the Fury 325 roller coaster's steel pillar at Carowinds on June 30, prompting the amusement park to shut the ride down.
The ride was closed after a viral video recorded at the amusement park and posted to social media showed a huge crack in one of the coaster's support beams. Workers began the process of removing and replacing the cracked support beam in mid-July.
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