The 2025 Ford Mustang GTD headed to the legendary Nurburgring in Germany late last year with a goal of lapping the track in less than seven minutes, which is something that an American branded production vehicle had never done before. 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 the automaker did just that last week, breaking its own mark. Now, Ford has released the full video of that historic feat.
Here, we get to see the Ford Mustang GTD rip off an even faster Nurburgring lap time than it did a few months ago, as was the case before with another clip of the original lap. The GTD wound up improving upon its previous effort by a whopping 5.5 seconds, lowering that personal best to 6:52.072 and 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.
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Mustang looking more like a Porsche 911 GT3.