2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin has revealed that Mercedes plans to present her a non-public check in a System 1 automotive.
The French driver, who was backed by the Brackley outfit all through her marketing campaign within the all-female racing sequence, signed with Mercedes as a growth driver in 2026.
After impressing throughout her simulator duties, Pin revealed that the plan was for her to check an F1 automotive.
“Yeah, he stated it,” Pin confirmed of crew principal Toto Wolff throughout an look on the Past The Grid podcast.
“Clearly, we needed to see how the sim was going after which it was the potential subsequent step, however the sim went properly, very properly really, and that is why they’d the concept to place me in a non-public check and to present me the possibility to drive the actual automotive.
“So undoubtedly I am actually pushing for it as properly as a result of I actually need my probability to drive the automotive and to indicate that there is potential as a result of my goal is to go to System 1. So I’ll be sure that I am totally prepared earlier than leaping within the automotive in actual life.”
Doriane Pin, PREMA Racing
Picture by: Patrick T. Fallon / AFP through Getty Photographs
When requested if she had had a seat match but, she added with a smile: “No, not but.”
Alongside her growth driver duties with Mercedes, Pin has returned to endurance racing. Previous to her transfer to single-seaters, Pin had already loved a profitable stint in endurance racing, competing within the LMP2 class as a part of the Iron Dames challenge in 2022. She has progressed to the LMP2 Professional-Am class in 2026.
The final girl to take part in an F1 race weekend was F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff, who drove in a free observe session for Williams in 2014, whereas the final girl to hold out a non-public check in an F1 automotive was Jessica Hawkins with Aston Martin in 2023.
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