The Most Famous
RACING DRIVERS from Algeria
This page contains a list of the greatest Algerian Racing Drivers. The pantheon dataset contains 888 Racing Drivers, 1 of which were born in Algeria. This makes Algeria the birth place of the 46th most number of Racing Drivers behind Morocco and Philippines.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Algerian Racing Drivers of all time. This list of famous Algerian Racing Drivers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Pierre-Henri Raphanel (1961 - )
With an HPI of 40.73, Pierre-Henri Raphanel is the most famous Algerian Racing Driver. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Pierre-Henri Raphanel (born 27 May 1961) 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. 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 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as racing drivers born between 1961 and 1961. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living racing drivers include Pierre-Henri Raphanel.
