Ford Mustang GTD smashes its own Nürburgring record
The Nürburgring has always been a proving ground where manufacturers flex their engineering muscles and show the world what their machines are capable of. Ford, for example, joined the party with its Mustang GTD and took it to the 20.8-kilometre track before the end of 2024, and it didn’t disappoint.
It clocked an impressive lap time of 6:57.685 seconds.
Now, that’s seriously quick. To put it into perspective, it was just 28 seconds off the current record holder, the Mercedes-AMG One, which reigns supreme with a time of 6:29.090. But what makes the Mustang GTD’s time even more impressive is that it became only the sixth car in its class to dip below the seven-minute mark, and it now ranks as the fifth-fastest production sports car to ever go around the track. If that’s not worth bragging about, what is?
But Ford wasn’t done just yet. The American carmaker went back to the track for another shot. The goal? Beat its own time and that’s exactly what it did by blistering around the Ring at a new time of 6:52.072, a solid 5.6 seconds cut from its previous lap.
Not just the better weather, according to Ford, this jump in performance came from a series of refinements: the engine calibration was tweaked, the chassis and traction control were reworked, the ABS was fine-tuned, and the aerodynamics got a proper once-over. With the impressive lap time to prove it, it now finds itself in some seriously elite company, lapping the Nürburgring faster than the Porsche 918 Spyder, the current 911 GT3, and even the wild Lamborghini Aventador SV.
But let’s be real, the GTD isn’t a regular Mustang, thanks to a 5.2-litre supercharged V8 engine with 607kW of power, thus making it the most powerful production Mustang in Ford’s history books.
Often regarded as the racecar for the road, the Mustang GTD remains an impressive piece of kit, and only time will tell what Ford is currently planning. Whatever it’s planning next, we can bet it won’t be quiet.
