A faster Competition version of the Ford Mustang GTD beats its own record by over 10 seconds, and smashes the fastest Corvette's attempt by nine seconds.
Ford has broken its own Nürburgring record with the Mustang GTD Competition, a more hardcore version of its track-focused supercar, lapping the iconic 20.832km-long race track in six minutes and 40.835 seconds.
It is more than 11 seconds faster than the 'regular' Mustang GTD's 6min 52.072sec time, and sees the Competition claim sixth on the Nürburgring Pre-Production/Prototype Class leaderboard, and was driven by Ford Racing and Multimatic factory driver Dirk Müller.
The Competition is even more extreme than the standard GTD, including an unspecified amount of additional power from the supercharged 5.2-litre V8, which already produced 607kW.
Improvements to its aerodynamics, above the already installed F1-style Drag Reduction System (DRS), is a modified rear wing, secondary front dive planes, and rear carbon fibre 'aero disc' wheel covers.
There are new magnesium wheels wrapped in different high-performance tyres, as well as further changes to reduce weight, including carbon-fibre bucket seats and lighter dampers.
Ford now claims the two fastest official Nürburgring lap times of any US car brand, the fastest being the GT Mk IV racing prototype, completing a 6min 15.977sec lap to become the quickest petrol-engined car around the circuit.
The outright Nürburgring lap record remains almost untouchable at 5min 19.546sec by Timo Bernhard driving the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo, a faster, unrestricted version of the Le Mans-winning 919 Hybrid race car.
The Mustang GTD Competition beats a 6min 45.389sec lap announced for the Porsche 911 GT3 RS Manthey hours earlier, as well as the flagship offering from key rival Chevrolet, the Corvette ZR1X hybrid twin-turbo V8 supercar (6min 49.275sec).
Ford CEO Jim Farley said in a media statement: "Mustang 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’s elite up at night."
Mustang GTD orders will reopen to North American buyers to sell a small batch of the Competition variant.
The GTD in regular and Competition guises is not sold in Australia, as it is not produced in right-hand drive, but the path for independent imports has recently been cleared.
