In seventh place, we have a tie between two roller coasters with the same top speed. The first of them to open is the Steel Dragon 2000, which debuted at Japan's Nagashima Spa Land amusement park ...

Gwazi, built in 1999 as Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's premiere wooden roller coaster, transformed into the Iron Gwazi in 2022—and now it's one of the best hybrid coasters on the globe.

The record-setting coaster will need to be built on a swath of land large enough to accommodate the amount of track needed for the launch and run out on either side of the 1,000-foot precipice.

Roller coaster engineer Korey Kiepert joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about roller coasters and the people who design them. How do roller coasters work?