First Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster in America splashes down in Altamonte Springs

The inaugural Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster in Altamonte Springs is part of a series of eccentric sports created across the globe.

With thousands of spectators looking on the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster wowed the crowd with daring feats of engineering and mayhem Saturday, with nearly two dozen tandem teams riding custom-engineered contraptions competing for speed and to survive the floating course in Crane’s Roost Park in Altamonte Springs.

Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Indymegasaurus moments before departing the course
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster Altamonte
Spectators arrive to watch the Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster in Altamonte Springs Saturday.
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster Altamonte
The Golden-ish Girls ready to compete.
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Yeast Mode rolls up to the starting gate.
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Indymegasaurus prepares to head up the ramp.
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Twin Pines Tandem prepares to time travel forward to the finish line.
Red Bull Tandem Roller Coaster Altamonte
Team Monorail Mayhem wades through the crowd before their run down the rollercoaster.
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster Altamonte
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster Altamonte
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Florideah Swamp Fest gets ready.
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Twin Pines Tandem navigates the course before an untimely crash
Red Bull Tandem Rollercoaster
Team Indymegasaurus attains splashdown

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Isaac is a co-founder of Oviedo Community News. He creates editorial plans, working closely with the community to identify issues that affect people’s everyday lives. He is OCN’s resident photojournalist.

He is a longtime local journalist and former managing editor of the Seminole Voice. His work has been featured in Golfweek magazine, the New York Times and Jalopnik. He has won more than a dozen Florida Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists awards and contributed to award-winning, in-depth work for the NPR member station 90.7 WMFE.

Isaac holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media, and may be best known for his many roles in the annual Oviedo Cemetery Tour. He enjoys hiking, running, sailing, motorcycling, modifying cars, inventing things, baking and going on adventures into forests and up snowy mountains with his family.

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