Mercedes continues to invest in Doriane Pin

After finally and blessedly winning the F1 Academy championship, we were still left to wonder all over again what would happen to Doriane Pin. Well, Mercedes-AMG has given her a development driver job, and that’s wonderful, but what happens after that?

You could argue this is the same kind of slightly creepy individualized attention Mercedes gave to Kimi Antonelli as they groomed him into a Formula 1 driver, but the circumstances are pretty different, and also they don’t have a 40-year-old driver to replace anymore. But hey, there are a lot of Mercedes customers on the F1 grid. I think she’s gonna make it.