# Federico Villagra

Federico Villagra (born May 1, 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

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, and matched this performance again in Jordan.
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.
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.

## Racing record
### 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 |
| 2005 | Federico Villagra | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | | | | | | | | | | | | | JPN Ret | FRA | ESP | | NC | 0 |
| 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 |
| 2007 | 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 | 20th | 2 |
| 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 | | | | NC | 0 |

### 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 |
| 2005 | Federico Villagra | Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII | | | | | | | JPN Ret | | 14th | 7 |
| 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 | Cars | Ford | 27th | 0 |
| 2016 | Trucks | Iveco | 3rd | 0 |
| 2017 | Trucks | Iveco | 4th | 0 |
| 2018 | Trucks | Iveco | DNF | 2 |
| 2019 | Trucks | Iveco | 4th | 0 |