Daniel Solà

Daniel Solà
	Sola in 2008
Personal information
Nationality	Spanish
Full name	Daniel Solà Villa
Born	January 3, 1976 (age 48); Vic, Spain
World Rally Championship record
Active years	1997–1999, 2001–2005, 2007
Teams	Citroën, Mitsubishi, Ford
Rallies	39
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	1
Total points	5
First rally	1997 Rally Catalunya
Last rally	2007 Wales Rally GB

Daniel Solà Villa (born 3 January 1976) is a Spanish rally driver. He won the Junior World Rally Championship in 2002 and the Spanish Rally Championship in 2006.^[1]

Daniel "Dani" Solà debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1997 and won the junior class (JWRC) title with Citroën in 2002. In 2003, he contested the Production World Rally Championship with Mitsubishi, finishing fifth overall, and made his first World Rally Car appearances in a Citroën Xsara WRC for the Citroën Total.^[1]

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 Rally Catalunya. In 2005, he raced for Ford with a Ford Focus RS WRC 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.^[2]

In 2006, Solà won the Spanish Rally Championship with Citroën C2 S1600 and in 2007 he was competing in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with a Honda Civic Type R.

Complete WRC results edit

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1997	Dani Solà	Peugeot 106 Rallye	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP Ret	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	IDN	ITA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
1998	Dani Solà	Peugeot 106 Rallye	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP Ret	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	ITA	AUS	GBR				NC	0
1999	Equipo RACC Competición	Peugeot 106 Rallye	MON	SWE	KEN	POR	ESP 40	FRA	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	CHN	ITA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2001	RACC Motor Sport	SEAT Córdoba WRC	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG	CYP	GRE	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR 34			NC	0
2002	Dani Solà	Citroën Saxo S1600	MON Ret	SWE	FRA	ESP 19	CYP	ARG	GRE 23	KEN		GER 12	ITA 17	NZL	AUS	GBR 21			NC	0
2002	Dani Solà	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo V									FIN Ret								NC	0
2003	Dani Solà	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	MON	SWE 32	TUR	NZL 43	ARG 12		CYP Ret	GER 22		AUS 20	ITA	FRA Ret	ESP				NC	0
	Citroën Sport	Citroën Xsara WRC						GRE 12								GBR Ret
	Dani Solà	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI									FIN 17
2004	Dani Solà	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	MON	SWE 20	MEX 11	NZL Ret	CYP		TUR	ARG EX	FIN		JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA Ret		AUS Ret	21st	3
2004	Mitsubishi Motors	Mitsubishi Lancer WRC 04						GRE Ret				GER Ret					ESP 6		21st	3
2005	BP Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 04	MON	SWE	MEX Ret	NZL	ITA	CYP	TUR	GRE	ARG	FIN	GER 12	GBR	JPN Ret	FRA Ret	ESP Ret	AUS 7	22nd	2
2007	JAS Motorsport	Honda Civic Type-R R3	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP 20		JPN	IRE	GBR 44	NC	0
2007	Twister Corse	Peugeot 207 S2000													FRA 10				NC	0

JWRC Results edit

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	JWRC	Points
2002	Dani Solà	Citroën Saxo S1600	MON Ret	ESP 1	GRE 4	GER 1	ITA 3	GBR 1	1st	37

PWRC results edit

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	PWRC	Points
2003	Dani Solà	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	SWE	NZL 15	ARG 2	CYP Ret	GER 1	AUS 5	FRA Ret	5th	22
2004	Dani Solà	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	SWE 3	MEX 1	NZL Ret	ARG EX	GER	FRA Ret	AUS Ret	8th	16

References edit

^ ^a ^b "Daniel Solà". RallyBase. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2009.
^ "Daniel Solà". World Rally Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2009.

Official site edit

Media related to Dani Solà at Wikimedia Commons

Official site

Sporting positions
Preceded by Sébastien Loeb	Junior World Rally Champion 2002	Succeeded by Brice Tirabassi

[RallyBase-1] "Daniel Solà". RallyBase. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 11 June 2009.

[2] "Daniel Solà". World Rally Archive. Retrieved 11 June 2009.

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