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2010 World Rally Championship - Rally Japan

Munchi’s set for Japanese jaunt

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 overall in 2008.

The eight-time Argentinean Rally Champion has a strong track record at Rally Japan – Villagra finished seventh the first time he contested the rally in 2007 and also scored his first WRC points at the event. Villagra’s past knowledge of the stages in Japan should hold him in good stead when competing against former Formula One Champion, Kimi Räikkönen, who is currently five points behind Villagra in the Drivers’ Standings.

However, Henning Solberg is only one point off claiming eighth position from the Argentinean and the experienced Norwegian driver will be tough competition to beat.

The Munchi’s Ford World Rally Team will look to replicate the consistency it has delivered in both the WRC and Argentine Rally Championship this year and aim to leave the tenth round of the WRC with a seventh consecutive points finish and to consolidate their eighth place in the Drivers’ Championship Standings. read more

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