{"id":36049,"date":"2026-04-21T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36049"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:44:47","slug":"ford-v-corvette-mustang-gtd-retakes-american-nurburgring-lap-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/ford-v-corvette-mustang-gtd-retakes-american-nurburgring-lap-record","title":{"rendered":"Ford v Corvette: Mustang GTD retakes American Nu\u0308rburgring lap record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/04\/17\/PDTN\/89664184007-mustang-gtd-comp-muller.jpg?width=660&amp;height=495&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Driver Dirk Muller with Ford Mustang GTD Competition at Nu\u0308rburgring.\" width=\"529\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Driver Dirk Muller with Ford Mustang GTD Competition at Nu\u0308rburgring.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Ford<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">For good measure, the Mustang lap also eclipsed the fastest Porsche 911 GT2 lap ever recorded at the Nu\u0308rburgring by three seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More insanity? The non-street-legal, track-focused version of the mid-engine Ford GT supercar, the GT Mk IV, set the outright American lap record of 6:15.9 minutes last month. It\u2019s the third-fastest lap ever recorded round the \u2018Ring behind the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo and VW ID.R race cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2026\/04\/17\/ford-v-corvette-mustang-gtd-retakes-american-nurburgring-lap-record\/89663460007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver Dirk Muller with Ford Mustang GTD Competition at Nu\u0308rburgring. Ford For good measure, the Mustang lap also eclipsed the fastest Porsche 911 GT2 lap ever recorded at the Nu\u0308rburgring by three seconds. More insanity? The non-street-legal, track-focused version of the mid-engine Ford GT supercar, the GT Mk IV, set the outright American lap record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36051,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36049\/revisions\/36051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}