Federico Villagra

Home Latest News WRC IRC British & Irish Rallying World News Rally Models Games & Competitions Rally History Written by Scott Coursey Latest News , World News Jun 7, 2010 Federico Villagra (Mitsubishi/VRS) broke a nine-month bout without victories after wining Argentine Rally Championship fourth round, held in the Southern city of Cutral-Có, in the province of Neuquén. At the wheel of his old Mitsubishi Evo IX (“Coyote” blew the EVO...Read Full Story

Home Latest News WRC IRC British & Irish Rallying World News Rally Models Games & Competitions Rally History Written by Scott Coursey Latest News , World News Jun 7, 2010 Federico Villagra (Mitsubishi/VRS) broke a nine-month bout without victories after wining Argentine Rally Championship fourth round, held in the Southern city of Cutral-Có, in the province of Neuquén. At the wheel of his old Mitsubishi Evo IX (“Coyote” blew the EVO...Read Full Story

Villagra aims the victory and the lead on his 100 th start Argentine Rally Championship moves to the west, to the province of San Luis, where this weekend it will be held the round nine of the series. The two main contenders for the title, Gabriel Pozzo (Subaru) and Federico Villagra (Mitsubishi) come as favorites to claim the victory since they have also won the last two editions of Rally de San Luis. However, this year the route has considerably been changed so the battle will be open...Read Full Story

Villagra aims the victory and the lead on his 100 th start Argentine Rally Championship moves to the west, to the province of San Luis, where this weekend it will be held the round nine of the series. The two main contenders for the title, Gabriel Pozzo (Subaru) and Federico Villagra (Mitsubishi) come as favorites to claim the victory since they have also won the last two editions of Rally de San Luis. However, this year the route has considerably been changed so the battle will be open...Read Full Story

Chevrolet - Marcos Ligato. Photo: rallyargentino.org.ar The Argentine Rally Championship is set to start a new and promising season this weekend with the Rally de Areco, the first of eleven rounds scheduled for this year, to be held in the province of Buenos Aires. After 15 years characterized by the fight between Mitsubishi and Subaru, this season will offer new challenges for both the teams and drivers as the new generation of cars break into the national rally scenery before spreading...Read Full Story

Stobart M-Sport Ford’s Matthew Wilson and co-driver Scott Martin successfully closed the gap on Federico Villagra in seventh position to only 2.4 seconds at the end of the second day of action at Rallye de France. The Cumbrian driver was hot on the tail of the seven-time Argentinean Rally Champion throughout the repeat loop of four stages totalling 149.22 km today, despite Wilson claiming the newly-located event had proved to be the hardest FIA World Rally Championship round of the year...Read Full Story

Munchi’s Ford World Rally Team driver Federico Villagra will return to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) next week where he will aim to extend his one point lead in the FIA Drivers’ Championship Standings over fellow Ford Focus RS WRC driver, Henning Solberg. This will be the third time that Federico Villagra and co-driver, Jorge Pérez Companc, will have competed at the Asian-based event and the duo are keen to improve on their previous outing at the rally when they finished ninth...Read Full Story

Munchi’s Ford World Rally Team driver Federico Villagra enjoyed a close fought battle with former Formula One Champion Kimi Räikkönen throughout Rally Japan, before taking advantage of the Finn crashing out of the event and using his experience to secure eighth place overall. The Sapporo-based event marked the return of Villagra and co-driver Jorge Perez Companc to the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time since Vodafone Rally de Portugal.  Since his last WRC event, the seven-time...Read Full Story

With just 22 years old Miguel Baldoni (Mitsubishi) claimed this weekend his maiden victory to become one of the youngster drivers ever to get success in the Argentine Rally Championship. The VRS driver won his home event, Rally de San Luis, after beating his team-mate, the Paraguayan Diego Domínguez (Mitsubishi) by 7,0s. in a race where the big names and main title contenders have faded out. Series leader Gabriel Pozzo (Subaru) was leading the race until SS2, however an early puncture...Read Full Story

The Munchi’s Ford World Rally Team made a successful return to the FIA World Rally Championship at Rally Mexico by securing a points-scoring finish in the tough Central American event. Federico Villagra and Jorge Pérez Companc steered the Munchi’s World Rally Team Ford Focus RS WRC through the high-altitude tests of the rally, based in León, to finish in seventh place overall and take eight manufacturer points. The result equalled the Argentine duo’s result at Rally Mexico 2008 and got...Read Full Story