Federico Villagra (born May 1, 1969) is an

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driver competing in the Argentine Rally Championship. He had previously competed in the

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for the Munchi's Ford World Rally Team. His co-driver is Diego Curletto.

Career

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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

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in 2006 and

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. This led to his employment by the Munchi's Ford World Rally Team halfway through the

season. He scored his first points with an attrition aided seventh place in

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he will again drive for the Munchi's team in the ten events that they are competing in. He was off the pace in

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, 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

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, finishing a career best sixth despite reliability issues, and matched this performance again in

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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. Acr2011 117

At season

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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

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with

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at 2010 Rally Argentina. Finishing 6th.

Racing record

WRC results

PWRC results

Dakar Rally results

References

External links

Profile at eWRC
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