The 2025 F1 Academy season faces its curtain call in the entertainment capital of the world, and for Lia Block, she’ll be hoping to continue her positive run heading into the last round.

F1 Academy is making its debut in Las Vegas, preparing for a dramatic finale with the battle for title going down to the last race. Whilst Lia isn’t in the title fight, there is a personal milestone up for grabs – she arrives in Vegas just 11 points shy of her 2024 points total, a goal that is well within reach.

After all, Lia has been on a charge of late over the last two rounds. She claimed her first podium in Round 5 at Zandvoort, with some stellar late-race defending to maintain P2 against championship protagonist, Maya Weug.

Last time out in Singapore, she went one better. Lining up on pole for Race 1, she navigated multiple Safety Car restarts and again kept Weug at bay to take an impressive lights-to-flag victory around the Marina Bay Street Circuit.

Lia Block celebrates her win in Singapore

For our Utah-native, this will be the closest race she’s had to home in her open-wheel career, with plenty of support set to travel across the state line to Nevada for race week.

On track, F1 Academy will immediately follow F1 sessions on every day except Saturday. That Saturday finale will also be run at sunset, a fitting way to end the season.

If you’re in Las Vegas for race week, you can hear from Lia during her live Q&A at the Atlassian Williams Racing Fan Zone, presented by Zoox, on Thursday. 

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Lia has grown up in the motorsport world and spent many of her childhood years in the paddock. She began racing karts at 11 years old and entered her first off-road racing series in the same year.

Lia then started drifting cars at 13 years old and assumed drag-racing duties in the famous 1,400HP Mustang ‘Hoonicorn’ the year after.
She continued to build her skills in off-road racing and karting, becoming a front-runner in the Lucas Oil Off-Road Series’ lower classes by 2021 and taking multiple karting wins.

She later took part in the final round of the 2021 American Rally Association Championship in the Oregon Trail Rally as a 15-year-old, for the Hoonigan Racing Division, marking her first national-level rally.

Lia undertook more regular rallying in 2022 as part of the ARA championship, a season which included her best finish at the Southern Ohio Forest Rally where she placed 9th overall and 3rd in the O2WD class.

This proved an even more successful event for her in the 2023 season, achieving a 6th place finish overall and a victory in the O2WD class.

With two rallies to go, Lia secured the 2023 ARA O2WD championship to become the youngest ARA champion in history.

2023 has been a busy year for Lia, competing in Extreme E as part of Carl Cox Motorsport for the second half of the season alongside Timo Scheider. She has also begun her first season in Nitrocross NEXT, the junior category of the championship previously known as Nitro Rallycross.

In November 2023, it was announced that Lia will compete in the 2024 F1 Academy season with ART Grand Prix, as well as coming onboard as a Williams Racing Academy Driver.

Later in the month, Lia competed in the Baja 1000 alongside her mother Lucy Block and the Block House Racing Team. Lia and the team raced to victory following a grueling 34 hours of rally racing in Mexico.

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