Race Car Patrol

The Race Car Patrol is a team of Autobot Micromasters from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Clockwise from top left: Free Wheeler, Tailspin, Roadhandler, Swindler

The Race Car Patrol consists of

• Roadhandler (leader)
• Free Wheeler
• Swindler
• Tailspin

Fiction

Transformers Comic-Magazin

The Race Car Patrol, Off Road Patrol, Rescue Patrol, and Sports Car Patrol emerged from hyperspace at several hundred mach into the Ark. A day later, a huge battle took place in New York as the Autobots battled the Decepticons. The Decepticons unleashed a robotic hell-beast known as 'King Con' which the Race Car Patrol help to battle, however Optimus Prime rented a helicopter to fly a banner announcing huge raw oil deposit finds in the Rocky Mountains. After a short hesitation, the Decepticons retreated to pursue these findings. New York — A City Sinking in Terror

Zone cartoon, manga, and story pages

When Victory Saber initiated the "Zone Project", the Race Car Patrol helped rebuild planet Micro into planet Zone. To counter this threat, Violen Jiger began conquering planets in order to create his own Decepticon Zone. The Race Car Patrol and all other Micromaster teams were then sent on patrol across the galaxy, specifically to planets where their unique skills could do the most good. Zone Part 1

When King Poseidon and Trypticon attacked the aquatic planet of Wall, the Race Car Patrol team were deployed to defend it. With the aid of Commanders Overload, Erector, Missile Bull, and Skywave, they emerged triumphant. Zone Part 3

The Race Car Patrol were one of the numerous Micromaster teams that helped defend Planet Zone from the Nine Great Demon Generals. Unfortunately, they were not able to prevent Overlord from stealing the planet's Zodiac energy capsule. Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas! Zone

When the Powered Masters flew off to the Tenth Planet for their showdown with Violen Jiger, all the Micromaster teams took command of Zone and vowed to keep it safe in their Commander's absence. Zone Part 10

Toys

The Transformers

• Race Car Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1988)

Together with the Air Strike Patrol and the Off Road Patrol, the Race Car Patrol was released by Hasbro in late 1988 (basically, a case of "next year product" being released at the end of the old year), in packaging that differed from the "proper" 1989 The Transformers Micromasters' redesigned packaging (silver cards and boxes featuring an all-new "Transformers" logo) by retaining a variation of the faction-specific color-coded gradiant background on the card and featuring a unique "Micro Transformers" title in a variation of the old, pre-1989 "Transformers" logo. This same basic packaging design was also used for Canada (albeit bilingual English/French) and parts of Europe (bilingual French/Dutch, and Italian-only packaging distributed by GiG). However, a running change variant of the French/Dutch version featuring the later 1989 packaging design also exists, and most likely a similar version (in English-only packaging) was also released in the United Kingdom alongside similar versions of the Air Strike Patrol and the Off Road Patrol.

Zone

• Race Car Patrol Team (Micro Transformer team, 1990)
  • Japanese ID number: C-334

Generations

War for Cybertron: Siege

• Roadhandler & Swindler (Micromaster, 2018)
  • ID number: WFC-S4
  • Japanese ID Number: SG-03
  • Japanese release date: February 23, 2019

Part of the first wave of Siege Micromasters, the Race Car Patrol is a pair of new molds. Roadhandler and Swindler transform from robots to cars and back. They can also combine with each other to form a "Multi-Mech Particle Exhaust Cannon", which just barely resembles a weapon. As a part of the C.O.M.B.A.T. System, their weapon mode can be attached to any toy with a 5 mm post-hole. "Fire Blasts" can also be attached to their barrels. Alternatively each can be turned into a single blaster without the need of their teammate as a fan mode. Out of the three available sets in the toyline's first wave, Roadhandler and Swindler were the set most frequently found shelfwarming.

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Race Car Patrol Team (レースカーパトロールチーム Rēsu Kā Patorōru Chīmu)
• French: Patrouille Routière ("Road Patrol"), Patrouille en voiture ("Car Patrol")
• Italian: Sprintforce
• Portuguese: Patrulha Terrestre ("Road Patrol")
• Spanish: Patrulla de Bólidos ("Fireball Patrol")