Pierre-Henri Raphanel (born 27 May 1961) is a French former

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. He participated in 17

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Grands Prix for

Larrousse Larrousse Formula One was a motorsports racing team founded in 1987 by Didier Calmels and former racer Gérard Larrousse, originally under the name Larrousse & Calmels. It was based in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, Antony, in the southern suburbs of Pa ...

, Coloni and

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, debuting on 13 November 1988. He only qualified for one race, the

1989 Monaco Grand Prix The 1989 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo on 7 May 1989. It was the third race of the 1989 Formula One World Championship. The 77-lap race was won from pole position by Ayrton Senna, drivin ...

, 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 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) is a grand touring car racing series that began in 1993. Originally titled as the , the series was renamed to Super GT in 2005. It was the top level of sports car racing in Japan. The series was s ...

, for the latter until 2000. After 2006 Raphanel worked as the lead test driver and product specialist for

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Exclusively Bugatti , The San Diego Union-Tribune
/ref> and is usually seen demonstrating the Veyron. Pierre-Henri Raphanel is also the uncle of the French-Algerian driver

Julien Gerbi Julien Gerbi (born October 3, 1985) is a French-Algerian-Spanish race car driver. Career Debut Gerbi started driving in karting in 1992, but didn't choose to race, competing only once in Monaco where he won his first competition. He trained ...

and of the young go-kart driver

Arthur Raphanel Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. A common spelling variant used in many Slavic, Romance, and Germanic languages is Artur. In Spanish and Ital ...

. He drove the

Bugatti Veyron Super Sport The Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 is a mid-engine sports car designed and developed in Germany by the Volkswagen Group and Bugatti, and manufactured in Molsheim, France by French automobile manufacturer Bugatti. It was named after the racing driver Pier ...

to its maximum speed (431.072 km/h) in

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in July 2010.

Racing record

Complete Macau Grand Prix results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete International Formula 3000 Championship results

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Complete Formula One results

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Complete FIA GT Championship results

Complete JGTC results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

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