Ford Built Mustang GTD With Aero Tech Race Cars Can't Even Use

The race-bred Ford Mustang GTD only started reaching customers recently, but it has made headlines for a while now. The GTD has a slew of headline-grabbing attributes like its exceptionally fast lap time at the Nürburgring Nordschleife, its immense 815 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque, and its staggering $327,960 starting price. It's a superlative car with remarkably sophisticated components, including precisely implemented aerodynamics that employ technology used in Formula 1 cars that's so advanced it's actually illegal in some race series, like the one where the Mustang GT3 competes, the car that serves as the main inspiration for the GTD.

Said F1-derived advanced aerodynamics is the Mustang GTD's Drag Reduction System, or DRS. Much like in the single-seat F1 cars, the drag reduction system hydraulically adjusts the angle of the car's massive rear wing and small retractable flaps mounted under the front splitter to keep the GTD glued to twisty roads and challenging racetrack corners while remaining blisteringly fast on long straights. Here's how it works …

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