WRC veteran Jourdan Serderidis will make his cross-country rally debut at the Baja Aragón ahead of his first Dakar Rally next January. He will drive a Ford Raptor from his longtime rally partner M-Sport.

Serderidis revealed his Dakar ambitions in an interview with DirtFish last December, explaining that most of the top rally raiders have rally backgrounds and that he wants to “do it once at least”.

Serderidis has worked with M-Sport in the World Rally Championship since 2018, albeit as a private driver separate from the main team. In two starts so far in 2025, he finished 33rd at Rally Sweden and eighth at the Safari Rally Kenya. Since he isn’t part of the works team, his entries do not score points for Ford in the manufacturers’ championship.

After Aragón, he will also run the Rallye du Maroc in October. Morocco, the final round of the World Rally-Raid Championship, is often used as a dress rehearsal for Dakar-bound racers.

M-Sport usually fields the Raptor for factory drivers Carlos Sainz, Nani Roma, Mitch Guthrie, and Mattias Ekström but has been expanding to privateers as of late too. Martin Prokop, who has his own personally built Raptor, became an M-Sport client in June. Officially, neither Prokop nor Serderidis are part of the works program but will receive support from Ford Performance.

Roma is also entered for the Baja Aragón, which will take place on July 24–27.

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