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

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

The Mustang GTD has quite a bit going for it. Revealed in August, the automotive is predicated 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 automotive can even profit from energetic aerodynamics that Ford on Thursday confirmed will embody a Drag Discount System, much like what’s present in Formulation 1.

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 velocity, they near generate downforce.

Ford is growing the DRS as an energetic system capable of finding the best stability between streamlined airflow for velocity and downforce for grip, based mostly on the present driving scenario.

Testing is happening each within the windtunnel and in digital simulations. Ford additionally plans to check the automotive at prime 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 file for manufacturing automobiles 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 probably be restricted, although Ford hasn’t stated precisely how lots of the automobiles it plans to construct, and for the way lengthy it would construct it. Manufacturing will probably be outsourced to Multimatic, the identical Canadian outfit that constructed the newest GT supercar for Ford.