Driven by Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller, the 815-horsepower Mustang GTD lapped the iconic 20.8km circuit in an officially certified 6m57:685s. It’s the fifth fastest time by a stock production sports car and only the sixth vehicle in that class to break the seven-minute barrier.
The Mustang GTD is the end result of Ford President and CEO Jim Farley’s vision to produce a road going version of the Mustang GT3.
Ford has produced a 13-minute documentary that goes behind the scenes covering the GTD’s two-year development process.
The sub-seven-minute lap time delivers on the goal laid out by Ford President and CEO Jim Farley when the GT3-inspired Mustang GTD was unveiled over a year ago.
“The team behind Mustang GTD took what we’ve learned from decades on the track and engineered a Mustang that can compete with the world’s best supercars,” Farley said. “We’re proud to be the first American automaker with a car that can lap the Nürburgring in under seven minutes, but we aren’t satisfied. We know there’s much more.”
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