Mercedes Method 1 group principal and CEO Toto Wolff has showered 2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin with reward after the 21-year-old “crushed” the all-female racing collection.
The French driver joined the Mercedes Junior Workforce in 2024 as she entered her rookie season in F1 Academy. After ending her first season within the championship within the runner-up place, she got here again on the hunt for the title in 2025.
Over the seven rounds, Pin amassed 172 factors, which had been sufficient to clinch the title over Maya Weug, who completed second.
“Yeah, Dori has been an excellent addition to the group. Her background was slightly bit totally different as a result of she got here by karting after which extra from touring vehicles and GT vehicles, and a few superb performances in prototypes,” the group chief defined throughout a Mercedes debrief video.
“However then she went into Method 1 Academy and crushed it. She gained the championship. She’s a fierce younger woman that may drive, and, from a character, she matches into Mercedes, she matches into the group. And it is a pleasure to see her working.”
Pin’s subsequent transfer is at the moment unclear, however she is eager to stay with Mercedes.
Doriane Pin, PREMA Racing
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“We will resolve the place we need to go. We do not know but the place we’re going as a result of we completed the season in mid-November, so it is already late,” Pin defined to Goodwood. “We’ll, for certain, make some selections within the subsequent few weeks. The purpose is hopefully staying with Mercedes, and we have now a profitable profession collectively, and an extended one.
“We completed the season collectively, so we will certainly have a full dialogue with the group.”
She added: “I like each single-seaters and sportscars, clearly, as a result of they’re high-level, and also you at all times battle with the perfect on the earth.
“Once I raced in WEC, it was very aggressive and a really lovely championship, however single-seaters has been a extremely good expertise during the last two years.”
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