When the Ford Mustang GTD became the first American car to be driven around Germany’s Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack in less than seven minutes in late 2024, that was not good enough for the people running the company.

Multimatic Motorsports driver Dirk Müller achieved an official lap time of 6:57:685 at that time at the track nicknamed the Green Hell.

“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 CEO and president Jim Farley was quoted in a news release at the time.

Well, the folks from Ford returned with a fine-tuned Mustang GTD and on a day with better track conditions.

Müller was able to shave more than five seconds off his earlier run, posting a Nordschleife lap time of 6:52:072.

Fortunately for automotive aficionados, Ford posted a video showing a side-by-side view of the earlier run and the improved run so we can watch where Müller was able to improve on his earlier lap time.

You can watch it on YouTube.

Canadian connection

The Mustang GTD, like every current-gen Mustang, is built at Ford’s Flat Rock, Michigan assembly plant.

After that, it is transported to Markham, Ont.-based Multimatic where it is completed and becomes the GTD. Multimatic is the company that also built Ford’s GT supercar, as well as various other low-volume vehicles.

Ford posted a short documentary about the car’s preparation for the ‘Ring. It features members of Ford and Multimatic’s teams responsible for the development of the car, including Multimatic chief technical officer Larry Holt, Mustang GTD chief program engineer Greg Goodall and Mustang GTD design manager Anthony Colard, along with Farley and Müller.

This short doc is available on YouTube as well.

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