Track segment with braking elements which retain vehicle vertically

Abstract

A toy vehicle racing game is described utilizing a continuous, unguided vehicle race track with steeply banked curves and straight, flat horizontal track sections. The width of the unguided roadbed surface is selected so that vehicles may pass one another. A player-controlled chicane is employed in the path of the high speed vehicles. The chicane includes normally active slow-down devices which the players attempt to disable manually just at the time that their vehicle is about to pass over the chicane. Vehicles which are able to pass the chicane without a speed reduction travel over the high end of the steeply banked curves to pass other vehicles which were slowed down. A vehicle diverter is employed to segregate the vehicles on a right-left basis before traversing the chicane. The vehicle diverter employs track guides in dove-tailed relationship to guide the vehicles and prevent their bouncing off the track as they engage the track guides at high speeds. The toy vehicles are spring-driven and provided with travel range limits to require a number of spring rewinds before completing a race of a desired number of laps around the track.