Short Fuse Racing Fordson

12/05/2026

Couple more great shots from Nostalgia Nationals weekend, not my pics but massive credit to Pods amazing photographers 😎👌

07/05/2026

Somebody order a burn out well done 🤣🤣 there were no tyres hurt in this video 😆

07/05/2026

This was a front shot on the big wheelie bar adjustment!!!

We definitely got some air people 🤣🤣

04/05/2026

Day 3

Eliminations !!!!

Round 1 we have Katie in Mighty Mouse last time i got Katie she knocked me out 😬 no pressure with an untested car 😂

Rolled up to the line after the burn out to see what we had, gonna stick with footbrake as were unknown at this point, Katie will leave slightly earlier as her dial was a little slower, mashed the throttle and were off nice and calm ish and straight 😅 footage showed it carried the wheels few inches high 💪 managed to catch her around a 1000ft and crossed the line first awesome 10.11 on a 9.95 dial with 0.08 reaction time round 1 win, onto round 2

Decided to leave car as is for the next round

Round 2 we had Billy in Grumpy Grizz another tough racer, lets see what we got, was happy the car and was handling well, and confidence was growing, rolled round and warmed the tyres, up to the line, Billy will go first as he has slightly slower dial in, he’s off split second later im after him 1st 2nd 3rd gone past 1000ft still not caught him jesus this is gonna be close………. Lost! went 9.97 on a 9.95 dial Billys win margin was 0.0002 of a second 😮‍💨 as Commentator Colin said measured in Fag papers that one !!! Reaction time was 1.4 !! And thats where that race was lost.

But what a weekend with the best Gasser Racing family absolutely love it even with all the grief from the van 😂😂😂
Thanks to everyone that helped and gave advice 💪

Cant wait for the next one now into the garage to make some alterations 😎

Thanks for reading 😎🤙
Nick

04/05/2026

A little late but an update

Day 2 started with qualifying.

From the previous days antics decided the wheelie bars needed to be taken out of the equation and possibly a little weight in the front to hopefully not make it lift quite so hard !!
So i evened up the wheelie bars and raised them a little and added weight to front axle and front crossmember,

Q1 run rolled through burn out and up to the line to see what we got on letting go of the button it came up as normal and off we went, felt better than last run but were still goin left, had to stay in it to try and get a number on the board went 10.73@130mph! But more tweaks are needed.

On returning to the pits we closely studied the footage to see that its still pushing hard on the wheelie bars, so now a much bigger adjustment was needed, now it doesn’t take a genius to work out that this could result in a much larger wheelie, so i also put more weight on the front to try and stop that.

Now lets see what happens

Q2 run approaching and i decided that because of the potential huuuuge wheelstand i’ll footbrake this one so, done the usual and rolled up to the line, floored it and up she come could see sky and birds flying by!! grabbed 2nd ummm still high so backed off and down it come with a little bounce, when i saw track again we were straight RESULT but back on it ended on a 10.33@130mph.

So back at the pits we reviewed the footage to see a nice straight run albeit a little high on the wheelie, so wanted to take some bite out of it with a ladder bar adjustment, so out come half the tool box, to blast it apart and raise it up a hole, we had time.

Got it all done in time but rain stopped play for the day 😢

eliminations tomorrow with a bit of an unknown 😬

30/04/2026

30/04/2026

1 more day to go to kick off the 2026 season lets see how this goes 😎