{"id":1887997,"date":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1887997"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:00:00","slug":"ford-mustang-gtd-records-6m-40-8s-ring-time-becomes-second-quickest-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1887997","title":{"rendered":"Ford Mustang GTD records 6m 40.8s \u2018Ring time, becomes second quickest overall*"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2024, the Ford Mustang GTD managed to race around the N\u00fcrburgring\u2019s lightly challenging layout in 6m 57.6s<\/a>. At the time, that made it the fastest American car to have achieved such a feat.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Ford went even faster. After a raft of tweaks \u2013 more aero, more power, more\u2026 suspension \u2013 the GTD recorded a time of 6m 52s<\/a>. Hugely respectable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And now, in 2026, capping off the longest and least surprising intro to a news story considering you\u2019ve already read the headline, Ford has absolutely sent<\/em> the wild GTD to become the second-fastest production car overall with a time of 6m 40.8s. Well, kinda, but we\u2019ll get to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we said \u2018game on\u2019, we meant it,\u201d said Ford boss Jim Farley. \u201cMustang GTD was always meant to bridge the worlds between GT3 race cars and street-legal supercars, and the GTD Competition takes this to the next level to continue keeping Europe\u2019s elite up at night.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That\u2019s right, the GTD is now the GTD Competition, and it\u2019s also being referred to as a \u2018supercar\u2019. That new moniker brings with it a wealth of further tweaks to the car\u2019s base content that helped shave \u2013 once more for the cheap seats \u2013 eleven seconds<\/em> around a massive circuit.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more power from the supercharged 5.2-litre V8 \u2013 we\u2019re not told how much, only that it\u2019s \u2018more\u2019 than the original 815bhp \u2013 and additional aero for more downforce (more dive planes, aero discs, rear wing mods).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Plus, Ford\u2019s bolted on new \u201chigh performance\u201d tyres, new magnesium wheels, new carbon bucket seats, lighter dampers and \u201cadditional actions\u201d that help shed weight. All useful, remember, because despite looking like a gym-honed bruiser, the GTD is actually really quite heavy: it was originally just shy of two tonnes (1,970kg). Ford hasn\u2019t said what it is now, but \u2018less than that\u2019 is a good shout.<\/p>\n

Still, even carrying all that bloat, \u201cthe Mustang GTD Competition secures the sixth-fastest time on the N\u00fcrburgring pre-production\/prototype class leaderboard\u201d, according to Ford. Ah, right \u2013 it\u2019s not technically a production car just yet, but it soon will be, as Ford\u2019s planning on building a limited number of these GTD Competition cars as special editions.<\/p>\n

So currently it sits behind the Porsche 919 Evo (5m 19.5s), Volkswagen ID.R (6m 05.3s), its big brother Ford GT Mk IV (6m 15.9s), the mad Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Prototype (6m 22s), the Lotus Evija X (6m 24s), and the Porsche 911 GT2 RS MR (6m 40.3).<\/p>\n

But once in<\/em> production, it\u2019ll technically sit behind\u2026 the Mercedes-AMG One<\/a> (6m 29s). And if it manages to find yet another 11 seconds of time, it\u2019ll sit at the top. That’s a big ‘if’, of course, but Farley did say \u2018game on\u2019 after all\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2024, the Ford Mustang GTD managed to race around the N\u00fcrburgring\u2019s lightly challenging layout in 6m 57.6s. At the time, that made it the fastest American car to have achieved such a feat. In 2025, Ford went even faster. After a raft of tweaks \u2013 more aero, more power, more\u2026 suspension \u2013 the GTD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1887997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}