Pierre-Henri Raphanel

Pierre-Henri Raphanel

Nation:	France
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1989 Monaco Grand Prix
Last start:	1989 Monaco Grand Prix
Constructors
1989  Coloni
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Pierre-Henri Raphanel (born May 27, 1961 in Algiers ) is a former French racing driver .

First years in motorsport

Pierre-Henri Raphanel's first major success was overall victory in the French Formula 3 championship in 1985. In the year before that, he was third, but in 1985 he narrowly beat his ORECA team- mate Yannick Dalmas in this highly competitive junior series . Like Dalmas, Raphanel switched to the International Formula 3000 Championship with ORECA in 1986 . Raphanel went through two difficult seasons, which were characterized by technical defects and accidents.

formula 1

Unexpectedly, at the end of the 1988 season, Raphanel had the chance to take part in a Formula 1 world championship run. He replaced Dalmas, who had Legionnaires' disease, in the Larrousse team at the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide. Without test drives and hampered by a gearbox failure, he could not qualify the Lola LC88-Cosworth for the race.

In 1989 Raphanel drove in the Coloni team again in Formula 1. In the constantly underfunded team, he was only able to qualify the Coloni FC188B -Cosworth once for a race. The Monaco Grand Prix remained his only Grand Prix. Starting the race from 18th place on the grid, a gearbox damage stopped him halfway through the race. A change to Rial after the Hungarian Grand Prix did not bring the desired success either. In six attempts, Raphanel never got beyond qualification. This ended his Formula 1 ambitions.

Sports car

His career in sports cars was far more successful, and he switched to various racing series at the beginning of the 1990 season. He competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the first time in 1986 . Up until the year 2000 he competed 14 times in Le Mans. He stood there on the podium three times. In 1987, before his activities in Formula 1, he finished third with a Cougar C20 with a Porsche engine. His teammates were team boss and friends Yves Courage and Hervé Regout . From 1990 Raphanel was intensively involved in Toyota's involvement in Group C as a test and field driver . He drove in the Japanese Group C Championship and helped the team to a second place overall at Le Mans 1992 . The team, which in addition to Raphanel also belonged to Kenny Acheson and Masanori Sekiya , was only beaten by the Peugeot works team . In 1997 Raphanel achieved another place on the podium at Le Mans. This time with a McLaren F1 , with Jean-Marc Gounon and Anders Olofsson as partners, it was enough for second place overall. During these years Raphanel drove regularly in Group C and from 2000 in the FIA GT Championship , interrupted only by one year (1999) in the Japanese GT Championship, where he drove a Toyota Supra .

After the active career

After the end of his active career, Raphanel became a works and test driver for Bugatti . At 431.072 km / h in a Bugatti Veyron he set a world speed record for road vehicles.

statistics

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1988	Larrousse Calmels	Lola LC88	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1989	Coloni SpA	Coloni FC188B	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
		Coloni C3	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rial Racing	Rial ARC2	Ford Cosworth DFZ 3.5 V8	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1988
																DNQ
1989
	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNF	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNPQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	DNQ

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1986	Primagaz Team Cougar	Cougar C12	Yves Courage	Alain de Cadenet	Rank 18
1987	Primagaz Compétition	Cougar C20	Yves Courage	Hervé Regout	Rank 3
1988	Primagaz Competition	Cougar C20B	Michel Ferté		failure	Fire at the pit stop
1989	Joest Racing	Porsche 962C	Frank Jelinski	Louis Krages	failure	Leak in the water cooler
1990	Toyota Team SARD	Toyota 90C-V	Roland Ratzenberger	Naoki Nagasaka	failure	Engine failure
1991	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Peugeot 905	Yannick Dalmas	Keke Rosberg	failure	Shift hydraulics
1992	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	Masanori Sekiya	Kenny Acheson	Rank 2
1993	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	Andy Wallace	Kenny Acheson	failure	Gearbox damage
1994	Courage Compètition	Courage C32LM	Lionel Robert	Pascal Fabre	failure	Engine failure
1995	GTC Gulf Racing	McLaren F1 GTR	Philippe Alliot	Lindsay Owen-Jones	failure	accident
1996	Gulf Racing	McLaren F1 GTR	David Brabham	Lindsay Owen-Jones	Rank 5
1997	Gulf Team Davidoff	McLaren F1 GTR	Not so Olofsson	Jean-Marc Gounon	Rank 2 and class win
1998	Joest Racing	Porsche LMP1	James Weaver	David Murry	failure	Engine failure
2000	Panoz Motorsports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	Johnny O'Connell	Hiroki Kato	Rank 5

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	Jan Magnussen	David Brabham	failure	Engine failure

literature

• Heinz Prüller: Grand Prix Story 88, solo for two . Orac, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7015-0153-X .
• Heinz Prüller: Grand Prix Story 89, The Big Crash . Orac, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-7015-0186-6 .

Web links

Commons : Pierre-Henri Raphanel  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Biography of Pierre-Henri Raphanel with pictures (accessed November 30, 2010).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bugatti Veyron: He's just driving away from the thunderstorm - car - cars and more - FAZ.NET. www.faz.net, accessed January 17, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Jürgen Pander: Interview with Pierre-Henri Raphanel. Spiegel Online , November 30, 2010, accessed December 1, 2010 .