Tomorrowland Speedway

[jkl2000]

Just wondering something about the Tomorrowland Speedway (which I rode once when I was about 12). Is it impossible to ride it off the rail? Another time when I was probably about the same age, maybe a year or so younger, we went to a place called Gaslight Village at Lake George, NY. My younger brother and I were on a similar ride but with cars that were supposed to look like old Model T Fords or something. Thinking it was impossible to ride the car off the rail, I decided to push it to the limits. I floored the gas and made a hard left on a straight section. To my surprise, it jumped right over the rail. A guy had to come out and lift it back onto the rail.

So just wondering if DS4's steering will need to be at all coordinated on the Tomorrowland Speedway.

 

[NYwdwfan]

Just wondering something about the Tomorrowland Speedway (which I rode once when I was about 12). Is it impossible to ride it off the rail? Another time when I was probably about the same age, maybe a year or so younger, we went to a place called Gaslight Village at Lake George, NY. My younger brother and I were on a similar ride but with cars that were supposed to look like old Model T Fords or something. Thinking it was impossible to ride the car off the rail, I decided to push it to the limits. I floored the gas and made a hard left on a straight section. To my surprise, it jumped right over the rail. A guy had to come out and lift it back onto the rail.

So just wondering if DS4's steering will need to be at all coordinated on the Tomorrowland Speedway.

I rode it two years ago with my 5 year old son driving. I had the gas pedal to the floor. He thought it was fun to bounce off the railing and refused to turn the wheel - at all. We stayed on the track. And gave ALL of the cars around us a good laugh (the image of this one guy pointing and laughing is etched on my brain!).

 

[Tom]

Nothing is impossible, but I've never actually heard of the Tomorrowland Speedway cars coming off the rail.

 

[Master Yoda]

I do not think you will have much to worry about. My daughter slammed into that rail at full speed as many times as she could and the car stayed on the rail. I have never even heard of one coming off.

 

[dkosdros]

If I remember correctly there is a bar underneath that keeps the track wrapped around it. So although it allows you to go from side to side and bounce into the sides I don't believe it would ever allow you to lift off the track. I could be wrong though. Just going off memory and I was trying to see how they were connected to the rail at that time.

 

[75disney]

If you don't steer and keep banging into the rail, it makes it more fun. My oldest DD does this and laughs every time I complain that she is not getting her driver's license until she is 30. One note: At the end of the ride, do not bump the car in front of you as you wait to return to the unloading area. It is not cool.

 

[Tom]

If I remember correctly there is a bar underneath that keeps the track wrapped around it. So although it allows you to go from side to side and bounce into the sides I don't believe it would ever allow you to lift off the track. I could be wrong though. Just going off memory and I was trying to see how they were connected to the rail at that time.

Disney's version doesn't have that. There are guides on the bottom of the car that are spaced apart and keep the car traveling along the rail. When you're in the load/unload area, you can see how they split the rail to the width of these guides (about a foot apart), to keep the cars from moving side to side at all, and the middle is filled with concrete like a median.

But the cars have been designed and their motors goverened so that their "ramming speed" isn't enough to jump the track.

 

[rct247]

They have come off the rail before. Luckily with the ride going only 7 mph, there usually isn't ever a huge issue. Funny thing is that as soon as it happens the car plows right off the road.