Pierre-Henri Raphanel

Race car driver, Person

1961 –

18

Who is Pierre-Henri Raphanel?

Pierre-Henri Raphanel 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.

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 and is usually seen demonstrating the Veyron.

Pierre-Henri Raphanel is also the uncle of the young French-Algerian driver Julien Gerbi, recently seen in Formula Two and Formula 3000. Gerbi actually tested for the Scuderia Coloni F3000 team exactly twenty years after Raphanel had been its official driver in Formula One.

He drove the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport to its maximum speed in Ehra-Lessien in July 2010.

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Born
May 27, 1961
Algiers
Nationality
  • France
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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