Ford Mustang GTD Kicked Even More Ass At Nürburgring: Video

Roughly a year after its debut, the 2025 Ford Mustang GTD headed to the famous track known as the Nurburgring in Germany with one goal in mind – to lap that circuit in less than seven minutes, which is something that an American branded production vehicle had never done. It managed to achieve that goal with a lap time of 6:57:685, becoming just the sixth vehicle to do so while posting the fifth-fastest time of any stock production sports car ever. However, CEO Jim Farley promised that the Ford Mustang GTD would be back to try and best that mark, and now, it has done precisely that, too.

This time around, the Ford Mustang GTD posted a rather stunning improvement of 5.5 seconds on its already-impressive Nurburgring lap time, lowering its personal best to 6:52.072 – making it the fourth fastest vehicle in the production sports car class. That translates to a distance improvement of around 800 feet, and comes after Blue Oval engineers spent this past winter making various improvements to the GTD based on what it has learned thus far.

Those improvements consist of things like revising the chassis tuning, increasing torsional rigidity, making aerodynamic tweaks that resulted in additional downforce, updating the suspension hardware and alignment to make handling both more precise and predictable, revising the ABS and traction control systems, further tweaking the Active Spool Valve, and making some powertrain calibration updates.

The Ford Performance team made these changes after reviewing every second of the previous Nurburgring lap attempt by the Ford Mustang GTD, and they also tested them out on a simulator before heading back to Germany. Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller spent some time on the simulator honing his own skills before taking another, highly successful crack at it. Turns out, all of these improvements will be baked into customer cars as well, which are slated to begin landing in private hands this spring.