6:40.8 Nurburgring Lap Time: New Mustang GTD COMPETITION Crushes Own Record 🏁

[LouG]

I'm copying my post over from the other thread in case one of them gets closed or they're merged:

That's a great achievement! I'm glad that they included that it's a street legal variant, so we don't have the endless arguing here about that. I still think it's asinine that you have to apply to Ford to give them a ridiculous sum of money, but whatever. I'd also like to know how much this will cost since the reality of the GTD is that the 325K base doesn't include the regular track pack (or whatever it's called), so they're really 400K+ cars before the Competition came out.

Also, just imagine what this car would do if Ford had gone all-out for the 7th gen and wasn't using an old steel unibody from over a decade ago. It would shave significant weight if they could use aluminum. Of course, that would likely increase the price as well.

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[LouG]

Great job Mr Ford.
I'm waiting to see what Misha does when the DH is finished.

 

[Epiphany]

Congrats Ford! This is great news.

 

[DeluxeStang]

I wonder how much power this thing is putting out. That was the main advantage the zr1x seemed to have over the GTD, they seem pretty close now. The GTD hit 194 at the end of the final straight, which was only 3 mph slower than the zr1, and it was obviously faster everywhere else.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

I thought maybe just as much of the advantage came from being able to reduce the drag from the aero on the straights.

 

[GT7 Mayhem]

It looks like the car has racing slicks on. If so, this wouldn't count towards "production car" times. Still a great achievement and an insane time, but if they are phrasing it as they took the american production car record back from the ZR1 I think they have to put road legal tires on it and run it back.

 

[Epiphany]

It looks like the car has racing slicks on. If so, this wouldn't count towards "production car" times. Still a great achievement and an insane time, but if they are phrasing it as they took the american production car record back from the ZR1 I think they have to put road legal tires on it and run it back.

ZR1/X ran in the prototype class. I'm sure they'll run again but if they run slicks then they'll stay in that category.

 

[robvas]

ZR1/X ran in the prototype class.

Only because it wasn't for sale in Europe yet. They used a US spec car.

 

[LouG]

It looks like the car has racing slicks on. If so, this wouldn't count towards "production car" times. Still a great achievement and an insane time, but if they are phrasing it as they took the american production car record back from the ZR1 I think they have to put road legal tires on it and run it back.

It's a pre-production prototype class, and I can't find any reference to the tyres allowed.
Slicks are definitely out for production cars.

 

[robvas]

They may be testing a tire that isn't released yet which is why they can't say (yet). NDA and blurry sidewalks.

 

[Epiphany]

Only because it wasn't for sale in Europe yet. They used a US spec car.

It should be a lock that GM returns and I think there is universal agreement that they will lower the times they ran, and the reductions have the potential to be significant. Until then, those times are only good for the prototype class. Just the way it is, you know?

 

[Dragster]

Someone on Reddit posited that these could be the tires used on the GTD Competition.

 

[Junkyard Dog]

Someone on Reddit posited that these could be the tires used on the GTD Competition.

Crazy that those tires have been out for a year, and nobody is testing them.

 

[robvas]

Someone on Reddit posited that these could be the tires used on the GTD Competition.

Possibly, but it looks like a Michelin sidewall in the pics and if it was an already available tire I don't know why they woudn't just say what it was.

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