{"id":304595,"date":"2025-11-24T01:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304595\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:39:12","slug":"doriane-pin-crowned-f1-academy-champion-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304595\/","title":{"rendered":"Doriane Pin crowned F1 Academy champion in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doriane Pin has been crowned F1 Academy champion in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Frenchwoman, who needed to finish the final race of the season in the top six to secure the title, came home in fifth<\/p>\n

Dutchwoman Maya Weug, the only person who could beat Pin, was third.<\/p>\n

The all-female series saw a dramatic final race weekend with Weug crashing during the formation lap in the first reverse-grid race, which Prema Racing’s Pin won to extend her championship lead to 20 points.<\/p>\n

Weug, who is in the Ferrari Driver Academy, gained two places on Pin in the final race but needed to win to have a chance of taking the title.<\/p>\n

Mercedes protege Pin finished the season with 151 points, with Weug nine behind. <\/p>\n

This was the first time the F1 Academy raced in Las Vegas and F1 has recently extended its contract with the series for next season. <\/p>\n

Pin entered F1 Academy in 2024 but was beaten to the title last year by Britain’s Abbi Pulling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

American Chloe Chambers converted her pole position to a race win in the second race of the weekend.<\/p>\n

F1 Academy started in 2023 to provide a stepping stone into motorsport for women and to widen the appeal of the sport in an attempt to increase the pool of female drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doriane Pin has been crowned F1 Academy champion in Las Vegas. The 21-year-old Frenchwoman, who needed to finish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-304595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}