- The Ford GT Mk IV set a brand new Nürburgring lap, turning into the quickest American automaker across the iconic observe.
- The GT recorded a lap time of 6 minutes and 15.977 seconds.
- The Ford GT MK IV is the third-fastest automobile to ever lap the long-lasting observe.
Ford simply set a brand new Nürburgring lap document, however not with the Mustang GTD. The automaker did it with the GT Mk IV, recording a time of 6 minutes and 15.977 seconds, turning into the quickest American automaker across the iconic observe.
The GT achieved its record-setting time as a track-only automobile within the Prototype class, the identical class the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X ran when it set its document lap of 6 minutes and 49.275 seconds.
The Ford can also be now the quickest automobile powered solely by an inner combustion engine and the third-fastest general. The one two automobiles quicker than the GT on the Nürburgring are the electrical Volkswagen ID.R (6 minutes and 5.335 seconds) and the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo race automobile (5 minutes and 19.546 seconds).
Ford launched the GT Mk IV again in 2022 as essentially the most excessive, track-only model of the automobile. The Mk IV rides on a customized carbon-fiber Multimatic chassis with an extended wheelbase, a long-tail physique, and enhanced aerodynamics that may generate greater than 2,400 kilos of downforce at 150 miles per hour.
Powering the GT is a bespoke twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter EcoBoost V6 engine producing greater than 820 horsepower. The road-going GT has a smaller, 660-hp 3.5-liter unit. Every automobile prices round $1.7 million. Ford opened the order books for the few remaining GT Mk IVs final August.
Motor1’s Take: The Nürburgring continues to be a benchmark for automakers, and this back-and-forth between Chevrolet and Ford is creating fairly the spectacle. After Ford set a document lap with the Mustang GTD, the Chevy ZR1 and ZR1X dethroned the Blue Oval’s final pony automobile, but it surely was a loss Ford is not willingly giving up.
