If it's the old kit, those things were motorized. Those vinyl tracks were a huge compromise for that purpose.
In the past, once I gave up building running tank models, I took a different mind set and built them with good hard connections in places where the run is straight, like the bottom under a road wheel.
It would be my suggestion to not build the older kit. It's out of scale and out of date.
With the newer kits you have all kinds of options for track, in addition to what's in the box.