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TCR had 3 rails sticking just proud of the track level. Outer 2 were channels 1 and 2, centre must be 0V. And the cars had 2 sprung brass pickups in middle and either L or R. Probably much the same as Scalectrix, but without the slot? No induction, just simple contacts. Unless they made a special version later?
Seems I might be misremembering I thought it was a flat track.
You can see it in action here, close-up of the track about halfway through the video.
From memory the rails on TCR track were about 1mm proud of the surface.
A mate had one. One of the cars was slightly quicker than the other so it was impossible to beat it. He just held the trigger down until he won. As it was his set nobody else was allowed to use the quicker car.
It all got very dull within about 5 minutes.
Matchbox Race and Chase on the other hand was the absolute cat's ass! IF you could get it to work.
I had a Tomy AFX 'Daredevil Rally' set. The magnets in the cars (a Peugeot 205 and a Golf GTI) would hold them to the track upside down. We used to build layouts with a section of track that went up the wall and across horizontally.
