The 2025 Ford Raptor T1+ Is Designed To Win the Dakar Rally

This is an ambitious year for Ford Performance. A new Mustang GT3 racer has already debuted at both Daytona and Le Mans. The brand has also been showing off a road-going Mustang GTD meant to bring that level of performance to the streets. At Pikes Peak, a radical new racer with an F-150 body took the win. Next up is Dakar, where Ford had already announced plans to run a Raptor-badged racer in 2025. This, the Ford Raptor T1+, is the truck that will hunt for the trophy.

The T1+, which carries a Raptor badge but no connection to any specific Raptor truck sold to customers, was built in collaboration with long-time Ford WRC partner M-Sport. Their final product has a Coyote-based 5.0-liter V-8, which sends power to 37-inch tires. Those are mounted to a front and rear independent double-wishbone suspension built in partnership with Fox, boasting three-way adjustable coilovers and four-way adjustable external bypass dampers. The truck also has a 400 mm ground clearance, 350 mm of wheel travel, and an approach angle of over 70 degrees.

Reigning Dakar champion Carlos Sainz Sr. and 2014 winner Nani Roma will field the Raptor T1+ in competitions starting with the Baja Hungary next month. The trucks will race again in Morocco in October before heading to Saudi Arabia for the Dakar Rally in January 2025. There, Ford hopes to bring the brand a prize that it has never won before.

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