Pierre-Henri Raphanel

Pierre-Henri Raphanel

Born	(1961-05-27) 27 May 1961
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	French
Active years	1988–1989
Teams	Larrousse, Coloni, Rial
Races	17 (1 start)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1988 Australian Grand Prix
Last race	1989 Australian Grand Prix

Pierre-Henri Raphanel (born 27 May 1961 in Algiers, Algeria^[1]) is a former French 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]

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.

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

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

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References