Doriane Pin clinched the 2025 F1 Academy title after doing exactly what she needed in the season finale in Las Vegas. The 21-year-old French driver, backed by Mercedes and racing for Prema, only had to finish inside the top six in Race Two to secure the crown following her victory in Saturday’s reverse-grid race — an event in which rival Maya Weug was taken out in a formation-lap collision.
Weug arrived in the final with one clear path to the championship: a race win. Although she mounted a late recovery and passed Pin with two laps remaining to move into third, she could not make up enough ground. Chloe Chambers, starting from pole, controlled the race from lights to flag to take the victory on home soil, while Alisha Palmowski claimed second. Pin slipped to fifth after also being overtaken by Alba Larsen, but her finish was sufficient to finish the season 15 points ahead of Weug in the standings.
Pin is the third driver to lift the F1 Academy trophy, following Marta Garcia in 2023 and Abbi Pulling in 2024. Last year Pin finished runner-up to Pulling in her first season in single-seaters; this year she converted that experience into a championship-winning campaign.
After the race, Pin received congratulations in parc fermé from Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff and drivers George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, and also from F1 president Stefano Domenicali. She thanked her team, her family and the early supporters who helped start her single-seater career, saying the result was the product of hard work and collective effort since joining Mercedes and moving into single-seater racing in 2024.
Prema, Pin’s team, had already wrapped up the teams’ title earlier in the weekend with their Race One result, claiming the constructors’ crown for a third consecutive season. Pin’s title caps a dominant year for the team and highlights her rise through the ranks as one of the series’ standout talents.