- Juan Pablo Raies
Juan Pablo Raies (born in
Argentina ) is a rally driver.Raies made his
World Rally Championship debut on his home event in 1992, aboard a Renault 18 GTX. He returned to participate in the same event intermittently over the course of the following decade, which culminated in tenth and eighth placed finishes respectively in theGroup N production car-based category on the 2001 and 2002 running of these events, both with the then dominant choice in the formula, of theMitsubishi Lancer Evolution . He piloted aWorld Rally Car for the first time, in his instance aSubaru Impreza , on the 2005 Rally Argentina. In the same year, he became South American Rally Champion.Raies was given a one-off chance with the
Stobart VK M-Sport Ford team on theCyprus Rally during the 2006 season, retiring on special stage five due to an electrical problem with hisFord Focus WRC .He was a driver for
Munchi's Ford World Rally Team in the2007 World Rally Championship season , as team-mate to the more establishedLuís Pérez Companc , brother of Raies' co-driver, Jorge Pérez Companc. Raies was excluded on his first outing with the team on theSwedish Rally , although he did still manage to achieve two twelfth placed finishes later in the year, on the Norweigian and Argentine events.
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