Munchi’s team gets set for 2009 debut

The Munchi’s Ford World Rally team will make its 2009 WRC debut on the Cyprus Rally with a Ford Focus RS for Argentinean driver Federico Villagra.

The team has taken advantage of new FIA regulations which allow single car teams to register for this year’s manufacturers’ championship.

Villagra, and co-driver Jorge Perez Companc, will lead the team’s campaign on eight events, and may be joined by a second car on selected rallies.

Seven-time Argentine Rally Champion Villagra has tackled the Cyprus event once before, finishing 27th in 2005, but is hoping two days of testing in the UK will help him on the unique mixed surface event.

Villagra’s last taste of WRC competition came on Rally Japan last year. “It feels like it has been a long time since my last event,” said Villagra. “It is great to be taking part in eight rounds of the WRC this season and I'm very happy to be back racing with Jorge. We have had a really good test and I am looking forward to the rally.

“Cyprus is going to be very interesting. The stages are very long and it is going to be a new experience driving on different surfaces in the same rally. I think it is also going to be very hard on the brakes and it will be tough mentally and physically,” he added.

Source:
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