Ford Supertruck lays down the GTD desting ring round

No one can accuse Ford’s dedication to the Nurburgring at the moment. After he has arranged less than once under seven minutes, but twice with the great Mustang GTD, it is now returning with his brace from Monster EVs, the Superman and Supertruck. Both of course went faster than the V8, with the transit-looking who recorded a 6: 48.2 and the F-15-shaped beast Set a 6: 43,482.

Although nowadays it is easy to be a little blasé about Nordschleife rounds, that is a formidable fast time for everything on four wheels. ‘Fifth fastest Prototype -Lap in history’ is a bit misleading, because that classifies everything from a Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo (Die Wild 5: 19,546 from 2018) to the VW Golf GTI Edition 50 (because it was not yet a production vehicle), but when the only cars are the Porsche, the VW, the VW. Club. In addition to the Mega Mustang, both EVs were faster than the recent barrage of Corvette rounds (which makes Ford feel a little better about gauling) and the current GT3 RS. With about four times the power, certainly, but it is hardly like these silhouettes of course lend themselves to lap times. And view it on board – in something so huge, the North Loop looks narrower than the Goodwood Hill.

Romain Dumas rode both super and super truck, which means that he now claims two of the top five times (also the ID.R tested). And if you wonder why there is a need for concept vehicles of cars that will not exist in the Nordschleife, Ford is more than prepared with answers. “If you know that your technology can handle Nürburgring abuse for six minutes, you know it will handle something from real life,” is the basic answer. Although no one will be able to buy 2,000 hp vans and trucks from Ford, the battery and motor technology will probably reach Serits and F-150s on time. To a certain extent, they are test beds, simply more interesting than the usual rate. Or, as Ford likes to say: ‘The aerodynamic lessons that we have learned to walk through the corners? They make your F-150 lightning more efficient on the highway. The systems that our batteries satisfied for six minutes of hell? They continue to work if you are stuck in summer traffic. ‘There is now a good screenwriter in PR.

The company has not suggested that more round times will follow – although, as the GTD attempt has shown, they are more than willing to continue if there is more speed to find. If these things can be made to go faster, be convinced that Ford will let it happen. And we are glued on YouTube again six and a half minutes.