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The Pin is mightier than the sword
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Endurance racing, Formula E, feeder series. Occasionally F1. Doriane Pin fan account. Statistician by day, sometimes it shows up here too.
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Who is Doriane Pin, what's she done and why does she have a large fanbase for a struggling FRegional driver? A career retrospective and driver evangelism 🧵. Simple answer: she's a French racing driver; the first thing you'll notice is she's tiny - short enough she had to delay karting by a year.
Peugeot:
IN: Vandoorne (from Genesis), Cassidy, Pourchaire
OUT: Vandoorne (to Genesis), Jensen (to McLaren), Vergne
PROBABLY OUT BUT NEXT YEAR: Jakobsen (to McLaren)
Vandoorne left for Genesis, fell out with Genesis because they didn't want him to do FE, and returned to Peugeot who don't mind his reserve role at Jaguar. Peugeot had a space because JEV decided that FE and developing the new Peugeot hypercar was enough work without also doing WEC.
Thinking about it FRECA has also done this just be ending its association with Alpine. 2026 will be a good year for daft acronym enjoyers.
I'm definitely a fan of FRMET and FROT having picked up the new trophy format since they were both pretty short series anyway, but I'm also impressed that by doing so they've managed to somehow make their acronyms sillier which I thought was impossible for any Formula Regional series.
FRegional Middle East will race in Qatar again in 2026 as it switches from championship to regional trophy status, with F4 Middle East doing the same and reviving its old F4 UAE name as its sister trophy series continues:
formulascout.com/fregional-mi...
FRegional Middle East to race in Qatar again as F4 UAE revives old name - Formula Scout
FRegional Middle East will race in Qatar next season, while F4 Middle East will do the same but revert to being F4 United Arab Emirates.
formulascout.com
Kirkwooooooooooood (he's been extended right)
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TF Sport and Corvette have inked a two-year contract extension that will see the British squad continue to campaign Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs in the FIA World Endurance Championship as well as other series.
TF Sport, Corvette Ink Two-Year Contract Extension
British squad to continue operating Corvette's LMGT3 entries through at least 2027 season...
sportscar365.com
There were no aero changes which is why I haven't included that bit. Yes, the BMW still has to be run 5mm higher than all the other cars.
Bahrain GT3 BoP table. Don't look, @justjoshingf1.bsky.social. After adding another lap to the stints at Fuji we've removed it again, apparently. The ACO giveth, etc. Maybe Valentino Rossi will finally manage to win a WEC race? BMW seem to have been given a not-really-needed break here....
I'm not sure who this favours for the race, though Toyota were very strong here last year when the car wasn't breaking down and they've finally caught a break, so maybe them. Probably Ferrari for the title though, which would not be very deserved but [insert Porsche rant here].
Bahrain BoP tables have been released. I am...confused? The Fuji BoP was pretty decent, with everyone looking dangerous at different points. This looks like a lot of fiddling given that. The circuit parameters for some reason make ACO think low/high speed profile is almost inverted compared to Fuji?
I'm just glad there wasn't a race in any of the series I watch in the US in the week between American DST and European DST...
(I do think F1 should stop being such stick-in-the-muds and let teams change two tyres at a stop, run C4s on one side and C1s on the other and anything else they want to though. WEC does it and the world has not ended yet).
oh yeah McLaren trying to change four tyres and accidentally only changing two is definitely a possibility.
If McLaren only change two tyres on his car they are definitely cheating
Because NASCAR is thinking about moving away from artificial gimmicks that make the racing worse so conservation of dumbassery requires another series to think about implementing them?
I have to admit to complete bafflement about how they did this at Monaco, it made the racing worse and most people hated it, and as a result it's....on the agenda for widespread adoption? Because, idk, evidence is passé or something these days? Because people _talked_ about how bad it was?
Hopefully nobody said anything super insightful last night because I gave up scrolling through all the baseballposting around what I'm guessing was the point where it went to extra innings.
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In terms of making bad choices yes, in terms of likelihood of admitting to it, not so much.
Sadly I feel like the best candidate for doing this would be Lando Norris but he doesn't actually make bad life choices beyond the cumulative effect of being too risk averse.
"I've faced a lot of adversity, mostly due to my habit of making absolutely terrible life choices" # things no racing driver has ever said but if one did I would be a fan for life
Dunne probably won't have enough points for a Superlicence unless the last two rounds go pretty well for him.
You'd think Lawson's baseball cap was his race number but actually it's a reminder to Helmut Marko of how many points Lindblad has scored in F2 since Barcelona.
Four main contenders as we understand it for three seats in the Red Bull stable.

How will both teams look in 2026?