Ford GT MkIV is now the fastest car around the Nürburgring you can currently buy
The road-going Ford GT might have been out of production for a couple of years now but track versions of the supercar are still breaking records.
The last Ford GT is seemingly the ultimate evergreen supercar. The road car might have been out of production for a couple of years now but track versions of it are still breaking records. The MkIV, the most extreme of them, has just taken to the Nürburgring Nordschleife, setting a 6:15.977 time, breaking a few records in the process.
The time isn’t the outright fastest – that’s still the Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo at 5:19.546. It’s also not the fastest road-legal car. That’s still the Mercedes-AMG One, at 6:29.090. The records the Ford has set are more subtle. The GT MkIV is now the fastest non-electrified, all-ICE car around the Nürburgring, propelled as it is solely by its twin-turbo EcoBoost V6 sporting over 800bhp.
It’s also now the fastest car around the Nürburgring that’s available for sale right now, given that the 67 customer examples are yet to be built. It’s also now the fastest car produced by an American car brand.
Like the road car (itself closely related to the old GTE racer) the GT MkIV is a collaboration between Ford and engineering partner Multimatic, which is responsible for among many other things, the carbon chassis and Adaptive Spool Valve race suspension. The roadgoing Ford GT's spiritual successor, also a collaboration with Multimatic, is the Ford Mustang GTD. Ford CEO Jim Farley has in the past been hesitant about a new supercar, preferring a flagship with a more relatable shape, like the Mustang.
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The car sports a longer wheelbase, bespoke racing gearbox and wild aero-focussed long-tailed bodywork, making it a more extreme track-only interpretation than the GT MkII, that was more closely related to the road car.
The record-setting car was driven by Frédéric Vervisch, a factory driver of Ford Racing. He’s a past Nürburgring 24 Hours winner, in 2019 and 2022, and was one of the first winning drivers of the Mustang GT3, taking the 2025 24 Hours of Daytona.
