WRC half-season report: the outliers – Serderidis and Sesks

3rd July 2025 0 By Kamron Kent

Rally Greece has marked the halfway point of the World Rally Championship, and here are our half-time reports, starting with our lowest-ranked drivers: Jourdan Serderidis and Martins Sesks.

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In a season which looks to be tightening up after seven rounds, we progress into the second half of the championship, starting at Rally Estonia later in July, with seven events left to go.

Whilst you have the front-running names like Thierry Neuville, Sebastien Ogier, Kalle Rovanpera or Ott Tanak, leading the headlines, the championship still contains outliers who are forging their path through the season.

Unfortunately, as sports go, someone has to be at the bottom of the rankings, and so far this season, we have the two M-Sport Ford part-time drivers at the bottom of the list: Serderidis and Sesks.

Naturally, their part-time programmes will place both drivers at a disadvantage and will rank lower than those who have completed more events in their part-time schedule, or those who are competing in the WRC full-time.

WRC 2025 Rally Estonia: Entry List

#13: Jourdan Serderidis – 2 points

Serderidis, the gentleman driver of the WRC, has competed in four rally events this season. Given that he has been described to rally as a hobby, and he has picked up championship points, we were in the predicament of whether to add him or not to this ranking.

We felt it could be unfair to add him and rank him against his Rally1 peers, but on the other side of the coin, we felt it was unfair not to add him too. So, with that, he’s in.

According to our ranking’s Serderidis is at the bottom of the list with only two points to his name on our board. He has still produced an okay season (considering his competitiveness), with a decent result in Kenya, securing four points, standing 17th in the overall championship.

Whilst he remains uncompetitive against the career-bidding professionals ahead of him, a stand-out performance in the remaining rounds of the season (if he is to compete in more) could bump him up our order.

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Score (based on events participated):

Sweden: 0 Points

Kenya: 1 Point

Italy: 1 Point
Greece: 0 Points

#12: Martins Sesks – 7 points

Martins Sesks came into the WRC last season, in the hybrid-less variant of the Rally1 Puma driven by then-Adrien Fourmaux and Gregoire Munster. However, in his six-event schedule for 2025, Sesks has not produced similar results, and it’s a shame.

Most of his problems could come down to his lack of experience, especially in rallies he is not familiar with, and that crash in Italy would not help his confidence.

We marked that he had a decent outing in Sweden, scoring six points in our rankings, when he secured a sixth-place finish at the end of the winter event. But the last three events have not been on par with what he has previously shown.

Hopefully, that Sesks spark will return in Estonia next time out at the end of the month.

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Score (based on events participated):

Sweden: 6 Points

Portugal: 0 Points

Italy: 0 Points

Greece: 1 Point

Disclaimer:

*Drivers are ranked out of 10, with one driver scoring 10 and the rest of the pack scoring lower than the next

*No one driver will have the same score as another, meaning no duplication of points scored (For example, if Ogier just pipped Tanak in performance, but they performed equally well, Ogier will get 10 and Tanak will get 9 etc.)

*Some drivers may compete but will not be given a score if performance has not warranted a score, e.g. a zero for the relevant event

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Kamron Kent

Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.

WRC half-season report: the outliers – Serderidis and Sesks