Doriane Pin has reiterated that her long-term ambition remains to be a seat on the Method 1 grid forward of this 12 months’s Autosport Awards.
Recent off her 2025 F1 Academy championship win, Pin appears to be leaping from energy to energy as she has not solely fought efficiently in single-seaters but in addition gained plentiful expertise in endurance racing with the Iron Dames. Now, she’s been confirmed to be a growth driver for the Mercedes F1 workforce for 2026.
Requested to replicate on her time behind the wheel in each the all-female championship in addition to her endurance racing, the younger French racing driver defined how she’s utilizing this expertise to arrange for her primary objective: to drive in F1.
“I’ve realized so many issues with the Iron Dames workforce,” she mentioned. “I have been racing with them in endurance races and… in longer races you might be working with a full workforce with technique individuals, with tyre individuals and engineers and so forth,” Pin continued. “And it’s totally intense as effectively, however superb for studying.”
This publicity has been a purposeful transfer on her half to develop her for what she hopes lies forward of her.
“I believe we had been ready this time to change to single-seater as a result of my dream is Method 1,” Pin confirmed. “In order that’s why we did it on the proper time when Mercedes got here with me.”
This coming season, Pin might be attending quite a few grands prix as she helps the Brackley outfit in her new function. Whereas her actual tasks have but to be outlined by the workforce, she might be helping with simulator work in addition to within the manufacturing unit. On prime of this, she’ll be utilizing her personal expertise on the prime of the F1 Academy drivers’ standings to assist Mercedes’ 2026 Academy lineup.
Doriane Pin, PREMA Racing
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“We’re delighted to announce that Doriane will step as much as the function of Growth Driver in 2026,” Mercedes consultant Bradley Lord mentioned in a launch. “In her two years inside our F1 ACADEMY workforce, she mixed dedication, velocity, and race-craft with robust technical suggestions and engineering data – culminating in her championship success final season.
“These expertise are important to progress up the motorsport ladder and this new function will assist Doriane proceed to develop and develop as a driver on her motorsport journey. Her success in F1 ACADEMY, and the chance the sequence presents, has ready her effectively for this subsequent step and we’re excited to see her deal with it alongside a soon-to-be-announced racing programme.”
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