Daniel Solà Villa (born 3 January 1976) is a Spanish

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driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in 2002 and the Spanish Rally Championship in 2006. Daniel "Dani" Solà debuted in the

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in 1997 and won the junior class (JWRC) title with

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in 2002. In 2003, he contested the

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with

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, finishing fifth overall, and made his first

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appearances in a Citroën Xsara WRC for the Citroën Total. In the 2004 season, Solà drove in three WRC events as an official Mitsubishi driver with the Lancer WRC, recording his first points with a sixth place at his home event, the

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. In

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, he raced for Ford with a

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in six WRC events, but did not manage to secure a full-time factory drive for the 2006 season. He achieved his first stage win at the 2005 Rally Catalunya. In 2006, Solà won the Spanish Rally Championship with Citroën C2 S1600 and in 2007 he was competing in the

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with a

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Complete WRC results

JWRC Results

PWRC results

References

Official site

Official site
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