Ford Mustang GTD Joins Nürburgring's Sub-Seven-Minute Club

The 2025 Ford Mustang GTD is officially the fastest American production car to lap the Nürburgring Nordschleife, dipping below the seven-minute barrier.

Officially, Multimatic Motorsports’ Dirk Müller looped the 12.9-mile circuit in a certified 6:57.68. According to official records, the 815-horsepower Mustang GTD is the fifth-fastest production sports car, behind the 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 Manthey Performance Kit, 2022 Porsche 911 GT3 RS, 2020 Mercedes-AMG GT Black Series, and the 2021 Porsche 991 GT2 RS Manthey Performance Kit.

Notably, the Mustang is the second-fastest front-engined car, nine seconds back of the 6:48.04 laid down by the AMG. Previously, the American record was held by the Dodge Viper ACR, which set a 7:01.03 in 2017.

A small team of Ford engineers and designers worked with Multimatic Motorsports over the past two years to transform the Mustang GT3 race car into a road-legal supercar. When the car debuted in August of 2023 Ford President and CEO Jim Farley promised the car would break the seven-minute barrier—on August 7, 2024, the team went out and did it.

“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 time to find with Mustang GTD. We’ll be back.”

Ford also put out The Road To The Ring, a 13-minute documentary that takes you inside the GTD's development through to the car's Nürburgring run.

Although derived from the race car, the GTD is free of GT3’s regulatory constraints, allowing it to use components banned by homologation. Carbon-ceramic brakes, active aerodynamics, and semi-active suspension are all integral to the car making lap time.

Ford says the record-setting Mustang GTD was entirely stock but was modified to include a roll cage and competition racing seat with a five-point harness as mandated safety equipment required for Nürburgring certification. Does it go sub-seven minutes if it doesn't have a cage—debatable, sure—do you want to go sub-seven without a cage—absolutely not—so, whatever.

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