Pin to Make Sports Car Return With Duqueine

Mercedes Formula 1 development driver and reigning F1 Academy champion Doriane Pin will make a return to endurance racing this year after being signed by Duqueine Team for its European Le Mans Series LMP2 attack.

The 22-year-old spent the formative years of her racing career in sports cars, initially in Ferrari Challenge competition before moving into the ELMS and the FIA World Endurance Championship in the GT divisions.

She progressed to LMP2 machinery for 2023 with Prema Racing but then opted to go down the single-seater route.

However, after winning last year’s F1 Academy title, Pin is now returning to prototype racing with an ELMS campaign at the wheel of the Duqueine Team Oreca 07 Gibson, which she will share with the previously announced Giorgio Roda and Richard Verschoor to contest the Pro-Am class.

Duqueine revealed last week that it had entered into a new partnership with successful single-seater squad R-ace GP to run the Oreca in the ELMS this season.