‘This Is Your Moment, Dori’ – Doriane’s Letter to Her Younger Self

The final lap in Las Vegas will be the longest of your life, and when you realise that you are going to be champion it won’t feel real, but you’ll be ready.

Enjoy it, it is what you’ve worked so hard for, and your team will be waiting to share that beautiful moment. They will be wearing t-shirts, just for you.

You won’t see it coming, but these unexpected moments create the best memories. There will be so much emotion under your helmet and in your body.

It will be why you convinced your dad all those years ago that motorsport was for you. It’s why you sat in a go-kart. It’s why you spent your weekends watching Lewis on TV with your dad. When you love what you do, you won’t want to quit, and it won’t feel like work.

Think of that feeling you get every time you do motorsport. This is your environment, Dori, this is what keeps you going. That passion inside you to be a high-level athlete, get involved in new things, it all leads to this.

On the same weekend you win in Vegas in 2025, your hero Mikaela Shiffrin will claim her 103^rd Alpine skiing victory. As a female athlete, Mikaela has been pushing boundaries from day one. Just like you.

You’ve watched her burst on to the scene, you’ve watched her work, you’ve watched her never give up. This will be part of your fuel; it will power you on to keep building your own career.

And what’s next after F1 ACADEMY, you might ask? Who knows. But perhaps the door to Formula 1 is closer than ever before.

When you first stood on the podium in Paris in the snow all those years ago, you were so tiny, but you had never looked so tall, achieving what your heroes achieved on television.

But it’s your place now, and your time. That’s why you can’t stop doing what you love, it’s an amazing feeling.

I hope I’ve made you proud, Dori, this is your moment. Here’s to many more.

Yours,

Doriane.