Doriane Pin’s F1 Academy debut, at the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, was an absolutely dominant performance.
Until the second checkered flag.
She secured pole position for both races in qualifying by more than half a second over Abbi Pulling, notched a lights-to-flag victory in the first race, and took the checkered flag in P1 in the second.
But a miscommunication with her team saw Pin take the checkered flag twice at race speed. After an investigation — and the podium celebration — Pin was assessed a drive-through penalty for the infraction, which was converted to a 20-second penalty. That dropped her to P9, and promoted Pulling to
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