Many automakers publish lap instances at Germany’s Nürburgring racetrack to focus on the efficiency of their autos, although Ford has historically shied away from the endeavor.

That modifications subsequent yr with the arrival of the 2025 Mustang GTD, a street-legal monitor automobile that Ford predicts will lap the ‘Ring in beneath seven minutes—the magic mark that high street-legal vehicles have solely managed to beat within the final decade.

The Mustang GTD has loads going for it. Revealed in August, the automobile relies on the most recent seventh-generation Mustang however dons carbon-fiber bodywork, a brand new suspension together with an inboard setup on the rear, and a supercharged 5.2-liter V-8 whose output will hover round 800 hp.

The automobile may even profit from lively aerodynamics that Ford on Thursday confirmed will embrace a Drag Discount System, much like what’s present in Components 1.

2025 Ford Mustang GTD drag discount system

2025 Ford Mustang GTD drag discount system

On the Mustang GTD, the DRS will incorporate each the rear wing and flaps beneath the entrance and rear of the car. These stay open throughout regular driving however when cornering at pace, they near generate downforce.

Ford is creating the DRS as an lively system capable of finding the perfect steadiness between streamlined airflow for pace and downforce for grip, based mostly on the present driving state of affairs.

Testing is going down each within the windtunnel and in digital simulations. Ford additionally plans to check the automobile at high racetracks all over the world. The automaker talked about Highway Atlanta and Belgium’s Spa-Francorchamps, and little doubt in depth testing will happen on the Nürburgring forward of any try at setting a lap time. The present report for manufacturing vehicles on the ‘Ring is the 6:35.183 set by the AMG One hypercar final yr.

The Mustang GT3 will carry a price ticket of greater than $300,000. Manufacturing will likely be restricted, although Ford hasn’t mentioned precisely how most of the vehicles it plans to construct, and for a way lengthy it can construct it. Manufacturing will likely be outsourced to Multimatic, the identical Canadian outfit that constructed the newest GT supercar for Ford.