Jason Webb NonStopTuning Ford Mustang | 2026 Formula Drift Stafford CT Recap

Can you believe we are already onto Round 2 of the Formula Drift Link ECU Prospec championship? Well I can’t! We knew after Atlanta we had to make some changes to the car. One of the major changes was changing the differential ratio. In Atlanta we were running a 3.55 diff ratio and it was far too long! We were struggling so much with too much wheel speed and with only 720hp I was not able to get the car to feel alive. Going into Stafford we knew we had to make the change to atleast a 3.91 diff ratio.
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We went to Stafford a few days before the round to get the new diff installed. I bought another 3.55 diff and installed a 3.91 gear set onto it. Yes we still run a stock welded diff on the Mustang! Matthew Bystrak was kind enough to let us use his shop in New Jersey ahead of the event and this helped us so much. It was convenient being close to the track, just 3 hours away.

Wednesday:
Wednesday was load in and set up day. Nothing too crazy. I picked my dad up from the airport that morning after his flight in from South Africa and we did the 3 hour drive up to Stafford Motor Speedway. With heavy rain and tornado warnings hitting our phones we decided to leave the car in the trailer until Thursday.

Thursday:
Thursday was another relatively relaxed day, we did not have to do seeding because we finished 2nd in Atlanta which pre seeds us into the top32. There was just 2 practice sessions we wanted to do but with heavy clouds and rain falling from the sky, we were reluctant in doing any practice at all. The reason we wouldn’t want to do practice is because there's a higher risk at wrecking the car and Friday, the day that actually matters for us had a beautiful clear forecast for the day.

​Fortunately the rain stayed in the heavens and we decided to do some practice. Straight away we felt how amazing this Stafford tarmac was, smooth, grippy, clean, great tire wear. We did a lot of changes to the car to make it easier to drive, I was struggling with a mental block of throwing the car towards a wall at 70mph. Something I have not done in about 4-5 years. I ended Thursdays practice kind of happy but not super stoked with how I drove.

Friday:
​Game day, Friday. We start the day with drivers meeting and then we start getting ready for the one and only practice session before the main event. Standing on the line in practice I had to speak to myself, remind myself of who I am and what I am capable of. I threw the car into the bank and stuck it right on the wall, in that moment I reminded myself of how great it felt to be on the edge of wrecking your entire car and running a super good run. I ended the practice session super happy and absolutely ready for the Top 32 battles.

​Three battles before my top 32 battle I jumped in the car and wanted to fire her up to get to the starting grid and she would not fire up at all. Frantically trying to find some sort of electrical issue, Kevin Wells came over and started the 5min clock which only allows us 5 minutes to get the car out of our pit area under its own power. With 30 seconds to go and now having a power steering issue we had to call it and just head to the grid, no power steering and uncertainty about our electrical issue. I managed to shut the ignition off while rolling to the starting line, turn it on and jump start the car again, this little reset switched the power steering back on and we were good to go.

Our battle was against Allen Boss, and after everything that had just happened I had a real scrappy run and so did Allen. We both made mistakes and I thought it would One More Time. We got the win in that battle and we moved on to the top 16!

Our top 16 run was against Collete Davis, I knew it was going to be a fun but tough battle, Collete has been in the game for some time and knows what she is doing, I knew we had to push. After this battle I knew that I had just laid down my best lead and chase run of the weekend so far, I was feeling so good and fired up. We got the win against Collete and we advanced into the top8!

Our top 8 battle was against Tyler Meyer, Tyler knocked me out in seeding in Atlanta and it was my turn to try get redemption. I laid down the best lead run I possibly could, my spotter told me where Tyler had made mistakes and that I need to capitalize on those areas. Going into the bank I put it on his door, rubbing it with my front wheel at times, we dropped down into the in field and I somehow missed the handbrake and made a tiny mistake but I was still with him almost taking both our bumpers off, going into the final corner I made another mistake on the transition, I missed the entire final zone in the final corner and was way on the inside. These mistakes gave Tyler the win and we got knocked out!

We finished in 5th for Round 2 and are still sitting in 2nd position so far in the overall standings. In just a couple weeks we will be heading to another new track in Indianapolis for Round 3 and I can’t wait to get back out on the track again!

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