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And this wouldn't be the first time a Mustang beat a track focused Porsche around a race track. In Fact there's a mass produced ford mustang that smashed numerous lap times of one of Porsche's most popular track cars, and I'm talking about the 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350, and the 2016 Cayman GT4.On the 8 tracks shown here, the Mustang beat the GT4 on 5 of them. 

And what about the nurburgring you ask. The 2016 Cayman GT4 had a fastest lap of 7 minutes and 40 seconds. The Mustang GT350R did it in 7 minutes and 32 seconds, it wasn't even close. But for some reason, this never became major automotive news. 
Now when you hear the word motorsport, Ford is typically not the first company that comes to mind, but when Ford sets it's sights on victory, it sometimes wins, I don't need to remind you of all the times that Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans, but you may have forgotten that Ford brought the GT back to le mans in 2016 and won the LM GTE Pro class, and beat numerous porsches and ferraris in the process.  
So here's how the Mustang GTD and GT2 RS stack up against each other on paper. 
So the GTDs got the GT2 beat in horsepower and suspension, and surprisingly, the GTD only weighs 27 pounds more than the GT2
When competing on a track like the nurburgring, that's got a lot of tight turns and elevation changes, suspension becomes even more important, and the GTD has cutting edge suspension that utilizes Multimatic’s DSSV motorized spool valve dampers, competition coilover springs, and a pushrod-actuated rear end that's part of  the tubular subframe chassis. 
The GTD also has a much more advanced aerodynamics package, featuring hydraulically controlled front flaps, a carbon fibre underbody and an active rear wing. 
But another area that the GTD has a huge advantage over the GT2 is the chassis. Because the GT2 is a roadcar that has been modified for the track, but the GTD is a racecar that's been modified to be street legal 
In order to beat the GT2 RS around the nurburgring, Ford has to beat 6 minutes and 47.3 seconds, but Ford doesn't just want to beat the GT2 RS around the nurburgring, it also wants to beat the Mercedes AMG GT Black Series, which has a lap time of 6 minutes and 43.6 seconds, over 3 seconds faster than the GT2 RS. And just for measure, the 992 GT3 RS lapped the nurburgring in 6 minutes and 49.3 seconds, exactly 2 seconds slower than the GT2 RS, and the current Nurburgring champion is the Mercedes AMG 1, at 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
But the main reason that the GTD will beat the GT2 around the nurburgring, is that time marches on and supercar technology advances very quickly, and while we all know and love the GT2 RS for the track beast that it is, that car is now 7 years old, and there have been significant advances in suspension and aerodynamics since then, and the Mustang GTD is a brand new car that features state of the art suspension and aerodynamics, and it just has way too many advantages over the older GT2 RS.
Ford started testing the GTD at the Nurburgring about two weeks ago, and so far they haven't been pushing the car to it's limits, which tells us they're still getting it dialed in. We can expect a couple more weeks of testing, and then Ford will make the official laptime announcement time at their leisure, manufactures often let this announcement drag on so the hype can build, but hopefully Ford will let us know sooner than later.