The Ford Mustang GTD managed to delivery on Blue Oval CEO Jim Farley’s promise of achieving a sub-seven-minute lap time at Germany’s legendary Nurburgring recently, as Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller piloted the pony car to a certified time of 6:57:685, making it the very first vehicle from an American brand to complete a lap at the Nurburgring in under seven minutes. Its also the fifth-fastest time posted by a stock production sports car at the track, according to official records, and the GTD is just the sixth vehicle in that class to break the seven-minute barrier as well – not to mention, it was also faster than several notable exotics.
As the Facebook page Mustang Fan Club points out in this recent post, the Ford Mustang GTD took down some pretty impressive machinery with its ‘Ring lap time – including the Lamborghini Aventador SV (6:59.73), BMW M4 CSL (7:18.13), Porsche 991.2 911 GT3 (7:12.7), Rimac Nevera (7:05.29), Ferrari 296 GTB (6:58.70), Ferrari 458 Pista (7:00.03), and McLaren 720S (7:08.34). That’s a pretty stunning list by all accounts, and a truly amazing achievement for the Ford Mustang GTD. FoMoCo also blessed us with a clip showing the GTD’s entire history-making lap at the notoriously tough-to-tame Nurburgring earlier this week, which can be found here.
Farley has long been adamant that the Mustang itself can compete with the world’s best sports cars – such as the Porsche 911 – and this result is indeed proof that it can do precisely that. However, as Ford Authority recently reported, The Blue Oval still isn’t quite satisfied with its historic performance at the ‘Ring, as CEO Jim Farley was quick to note that the automaker plans to return to Germany and give it another go at some point in 2025. It remains to be seen if the GTD can best its already-impressive lap time, but it may certainly still have a bit more left in it.
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I think the GTD could easily shave a few more seconds off of that time; sub 6:50 seems achievable. You could tell in the ‘Road to the Ring’ video that Sam Ashtiani (Special Vehicle Operation Development Manager) knew their machine had even more to give.
I’d be happy to copilot the next attempt.
Agreed! I think that the GTD has more to offer. We’ll see in time. Although watching Dirk Muller’s lapping sequence, it’d be hard to image how that could be?