Chevy took it personally when the Mustang GTD became the first American car to break the 7-minute barrier at the Nurburgring.

On Thursday, General Motors announced the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X set a Nürburgring lap time of 6:49.275. That not only bests the Ford Mustang GTD’s 6:52.072 time, which was the first American car to ...