Pierre-Henri Raphanel

Pierre-Henri Raphanel (born 27 May 1961 in Algiers, Algeria[1]) is a French former racing driver. He participated in 17 Formula One Grands Prix for Larrousse, Coloni and Rial, debuting on 13 November 1988. He only qualified for one race, the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix, making him the only driver in F1 history whose only race was in the principality.[2]

Pierre-Henri Raphanel
Born (1961-05-27) 27 May 1961
Algiers, Algeria
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality French
Active years19881989
TeamsLarrousse, Coloni, Rial
Entries17 (1 start)
Championships0
Wins0
Podiums0
Career points0
Pole positions0
Fastest laps0
First entry1988 Australian Grand Prix
Last entry1989 Australian Grand Prix

Following his F1 career, he became a factory driver for Toyota, competing in Japan for series such as JTCC and JGTC, for the latter until 2000. After 2006 Raphanel worked as the lead test driver and product specialist for Bugatti[3] and is usually seen demonstrating the Veyron.

Pierre-Henri Raphanel is also the uncle of the French-Algerian driver Julien Gerbi and of the young go-kart driver Arthur Raphanel.

He drove the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport to its maximum speed (431.072 km/h) in Ehra-Lessien in July 2010.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Raphanel driving for Coloni at the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix.
Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1986 Primagaz Team Cougar Yves Courage
Alain de Cadenet
Cougar C12-Porsche C1 267 18th 11th
1987 Primagaz Competition Yves Courage
Hervé Regout
Courage C20-Porsche C1 332 3rd 3rd
1988 Primagaz Competition Michel Ferté Cougar C20B-Porsche C1 120 DNF DNF
1989 Joest Racing Frank Jelinski
Louis Krages
Porsche 962C C1 124 DNF DNF
1990 Toyota Team SARD Roland Ratzenberger
Naoki Nagasaka
Toyota 90C-V C1 241 DNF DNF
1991 Peugeot Talbot Sport Keke Rosberg
Yannick Dalmas
Peugeot 905 C1 68 DNF DNF
1992 Toyota Team Tom's Masanori Sekiya
Kenny Acheson
Toyota TS010 C1 346 2nd 2nd
1993 Toyota Team Tom's Kenny Acheson
Andy Wallace
Toyota TS010 C1 212 DNF DNF
1994 Courage Compétition Lionel Robert
Pascal Fabre
Courage C32LM-Porsche LMP1
/C90
107 DNF DNF
1995 GTC Gulf Racing Philippe Alliot
Lindsay Owen-Jones
McLaren F1 GTR GT1 77 DNF DNF
1996 Gulf Racing
GTC Racing
Lindsay Owen-Jones
David Brabham
McLaren F1 GTR GT1 335 5th 4th
1997 Gulf Team Davidoff
GTC Racing
Jean-Marc Gounon
Anders Olofsson
McLaren F1 GTR GT1 360 2nd 1st
1998 Porsche AG
Joest Racing
David Murry
James Weaver
Porsche LMP1-98 LMP1 218 DNF DNF
2000 Panoz Motorsports Johnny O'Connell
Hiroki Katoh
Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S LMP900 342 5th 5th

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 WDC Points
1988 Larrousse Calmels Lola LC88 Cosworth V8 BRA SMR MON MEX CAN DET FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR ESP JPN AUS
DNQ
NC 0
1989 Coloni SpA Coloni FC188B Cosworth V8 BRA
DNPQ
SMR
DNPQ
MON
Ret
MEX
DNPQ
USA
DNPQ
NC 0
Coloni C3 CAN
DNPQ
FRA
DNPQ
GBR
DNPQ
GER
DNPQ
HUN
DNPQ
Rial Racing Rial ARC2 BEL
DNQ
ITA
DNQ
POR
DNQ
ESP
DNQ
JPN
DNQ
AUS
DNQ

References

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Ivan Capelli
Monaco Formula Three
Race Winner

1985
Succeeded by
Yannick Dalmas
Preceded by
Olivier Grouillard
French Formula Three
Champion

1985
Succeeded by
Yannick Dalmas
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