Tractor test: JCB Fastrac 8250 Almost since its launch way back in the early 1990s, the JCB Fastrac has been engaged in a long-running crusade – to shed its image of being little more than a haulage-biased machine with a modicum of in-field ability. Each update has duly brought more fieldwork friendliness, until we finally arrive at the tested 183kW/248hp 8250, which debuted at the end of 2005 and is, without doubt, the most cultivations-capable Fastrac to date