DORIANE PIN Fights Through Weather Chaos for Top-20 Finish at Zandvoort FRECA

June 9, 2025

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DORIANE PIN faced brutal conditions at Zandvoort’s FRECA round, where rapidly changing weather turned qualifying into a lottery and limited overtaking opportunities made grid position crucial. Despite the chaos, she showed her trademark resilience by fighting from P20 to secure a top-20 finish in Race 1, making strategic moves in the closing laps to gain positions when others faltered.
The French driver’s dual-series campaign continues to impress—while Zandvoort proved challenging in FRECA, she’s currently sitting second in F1 Academy standings with two wins and three podiums. This marks only her second full year in single-seaters after transitioning from endurance racing, proving that her learning curve is steep but her determination is steeper.
Race 2 saw PIN’s weekend take a frustrating turn when contact at the restart damaged her front wing, forcing an unscheduled pit stop that dropped her to P25. Yet even with a 40-second gap to recover, she kept pushing and posting consistent lap times in the 1:33s, showing the kind of professional attitude that’s already earned her recognition as a rising star in the junior formulas.