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No if you are comfortable on the road and have downtube shifters--- as in the day. Modern track is a bit smaller than old-school road... How much.. really depends. Used to be that one really wanted to get frames as small as possible to increase stiffness as Reynolds 531DB and other similar steels--- the best of their day--- were pretty darn flexy. Bad enough on the road but on the track Modern OS tubes and Monocoques designs are quite stiff.. Frame flex is no longer a major issue so a size variable in that equation can be easily dropped...
With modern frames and sizing top-tube length tend to mean little.. First we have differences in seat-tube angle.. then we have differences in head-tube length.. Do the math.. The longer the seat-tube the longer the top-tube without adding anything substantive to it.. On the track what matters is the position of bars (height difference between drops and saddle), height of the saddle and distance from saddle to bars.. The lower the bars the less reach is needed. The limiting factor is personal flexibility and statistically the angle of the knee and hips at the top and bottom of the stroke..
A good starting point would be be lift your road position over the track..