2025 F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin has taken half in a Components 1 take a look at with Mercedes.
The French driver not too long ago revealed in an interview on the F1 Past The Grid podcast that the plan was to participate in an F1 take a look at with the Brackley outfit. Now, Mercedes has shared pictures of the milestone second with the caption, “A milestone second for Doriane Pin. Getting behind the wheel of an F1 automotive for the primary time.”
Pin received behind the wheel of the Mercedes W12, which was pushed by Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas within the 2021 season. “As we speak is a really big day,” she shared in a video on social media.
“I’ll drive for the primary time a Components 1 automotive in Silverstone. Very trying ahead to it. It is going to be a giant day and one thing that I’ve dreamed for thus lengthy. So I’ll take pleasure in each second and take this opportunity to construct myself and proceed to develop and luxuriate in driving a Components 1 automotive.
“And I’ll hold you posted of how it’s and the way particular is that this day.”
The 22-year-old driver at the moment serves as a growth driver for the Mercedes F1 group after the Toto Wolff-led group backed her F1 Academy marketing campaign.
The final lady to participate in a non-public take a look at in an F1 automotive was Jessica Hawkins with Aston Martin in 2023, and the final lady to take part in an F1 race weekend was F1 Academy managing director Susie Wolff, who took half in a free observe session with Williams in 2014.
Not solely is that this an enormous milestone for Pin, however it is usually an enormous second for the F1 Academy. The objective for the all-female racing sequence is to present younger girls alternatives on monitor and show that motorsport is now not a person’s world.
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