2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin hopes that her Components 1 check with Mercedes will open the door to extra alternatives within the championship, as she defined that securing a seat in F1 has now change into a aim quite than a dream.
The French driver joined the Mercedes Junior Staff in 2024 when she entered the all-female racing sequence. After profitable the championship in 2025 , she was promoted to the position of improvement driver on the Brackley outfit.
Come April 2026, and Pin was behind the wheel of the Mercedes W12 from the 2021 F1 championship.
“Driving once more in Components 1,” Pin stated when requested what her subsequent aim is in the course of the Mercedes Nu Silver Arrows Present.
“I hope I’ll have the chance. I feel we did a reasonably good job at present. I hope it would open some doorways and a few alternatives for the long run, however what’s subsequent is Le Castellet in three weeks for ELMS [European Le Mans Series].
Doriane Pin
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“And with F1, I hope this chapter is just the start and I’ll have extra probabilities to drive a Components 1 automobile and to proceed my development step-by-step, and hopefully be in FP1 at one level.”
Speaking about her aim of driving in F1, the 22-year-old added: “However from after I was 9 till a couple of years in the past, it was a dream – Components 1. And now it is a aim. It is a bit completely different. And now I’ve proved to myself that I will be quick in a Components 1 automobile, I do not know what to say to my nine-year-old Doriane, however I feel that it is necessary to observe what’s inside your coronary heart, and your intestine.”
Pin’s outing with Mercedes made her the primary F1 Academy champion to check an F1 automobile and the primary lady to check a Mercedes F1 automobile.
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