Federico Villagra

Federico Villagra

Villagra at the 2008 Rally of New Zealand.
Personal information
Nationality	Argentine
Born	May 21, 1969
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2000 -
Teams	Mitsubishi, Munchi's Ford World Rally Team
Rallies	54
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	4
Total points	83
First rally	1998 Rally Argentina

Federico Villagra (born May 21, 1969) is an Argentine rally driver competing in the Argentine Rally Championship. He had previously competed in the World Rally Championship for the Munchi's Ford World Rally Team. His co-driver is Diego Curletto.

Career

Villagra at the 2007 Wales Rally GB.

After experiencing success in his native championship (including winning the group N4 class every year between 2001 and 2005), Villagra came to the attention of a wider stage by winning the group N class of Rally Argentina in 2006 and 2007. This led to his employment by the Munchi's Ford World Rally Team halfway through the 2007 season. He scored his first points with an attrition aided seventh place in Japan.

In 2008 he will again drive for the Munchi's team in the ten events that they are competing in. He was off the pace in México, which was his first event of the season, but still managed to finish seventh and pick up two drivers points. He improved again at his home event in Argentina, finishing a career best sixth despite reliability issues,^[1] and matched this performance again in Jordan.^[2]

In 2009 Villagra scored more points than year before and finished best at 4th place at his home-event 2009 Rally Argentina and also at 2009 Acropolis Rally.

Villagra at the 2011 Acropolis Rally

At season 2010 Villagra changed his livery and continued in scoring points, he scored at least point 7 times out of his 8 rallies this year. Villagra got 36 points and 9th place overall. He also tried IRC with Ford Fiesta S2000 at 2010 Rally Argentina. Finishing 6th.

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1998	Federico Villagra	Peugeot 405 MI16	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	FRA	ARG 22	GRC	NZL	FIN	ITA	AUS	GBR				NC	0
2000	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP	ARG 22	GRC	NZL	FIN	CYP	FRA	ITA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2001	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG 15	CYP	GRC	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2002	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP	CYP	ARG 13	GRE	KEN	FIN	GER	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2003	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG 15	GRE	CYP	GER	FIN	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			NC	0
2004	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL	CYP	GRE	TUR	ARG Ret	FIN	GER	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA	ESP	AUS	NC	0
2005	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL 19	ITA	CYP 27	TUR 27	GRE	ARG DSQ	FIN	GER	GBR				AUS 16	NC	0
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII													JPN Ret	FRA	ESP
2006	VRS Rally Team	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA	ARG 12	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	NC	0
2007	VRS Rally Team	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG 9											20th	2
	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 06							ITA 11	GRE 32	FIN 14	GER	NZL 11	ESP 13	FRA	JPN 7	IRE	GBR 18
2008	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	MON	SWE	MEX 7	ARG 6	JOR 6	ITA 14	GRE 13	TUR 9	FIN Ret	GER	NZL 8	ESP 12	FRA	JPN 9	GBR		14th	9
2009	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	IRE	NOR	CYP 7	POR 7	ARG 4	ITA Ret	GRE 4	POL	FIN 11	AUS 8	ESP 8	GBR					9th	16
2010	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 08	SWE	MEX 7	JOR 7	TUR 6	NZL 9	POR 8	BUL	FIN	GER	JPN 8	FRA 7	ESP 15	GBR				9th	36
2011	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	SWE	MEX 9	POR 8	JOR 7	ITA 17	ARG 6	GRE Ret	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP 16	GBR				13th	20
2015	Federico Villagra	Ford Fiesta MR	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG 10	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA	ESP	GBR				21st*	1*

* Season still in progress.

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Points
2005	Federico Villagra	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	SWE	NZL 6	CYP 8	TUR 9	ARG DSQ	GBR		AUS 6	14th	7
		Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII							JPN Ret
2007	VRS Rally Team	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	SWE	MEX	ARG 1	GRE	NZL	JPN	IRE	GBR	10th	10

Dakar Rally results

Year	Class	Vehicle	Position	Stages won
2014	Cars	Mini	12th	0
2015		Ford	27th	0
2016	Trucks	Iveco	3rd	0

References

1. "Sixth place for Villagra is personal best". wrc.com. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
2. "Villagra sixth for Munchi's in Jordan". wrc.com. Retrieved 2008-08-10.