"We’ve made so much progress, and I can’t wait to hit the track again in Shanghai. This time we fight for wins!”

Lia Block to continue with Williams Racing for 2025 F1 Academy season

Abu Dhabi will host the season finale for F2 and F1 Academy this weekend

Academy Preview: Our Youngsters at Yas Marina

F1 Academy and F2 returned to action in support of the Qatar GP

Academy Report: Lusail racing for Lia and Luke

Luke Browning and Lia Block return to track this weekend

Academy Preview: Gearing up for Lusail

Alessandro Giusti, Oleksandr Bondarev, and Lia Block raced around Monza

Academy Report: A trio at the Temple

In her own words, Lia Block speaks openly about her 2024 so far and looks ahead to the remainder of the F1 Academy campaign

Lia: “The hard work is starting to pay off”

Join Lia Block for an insight into how she prepares for an F1 Academy session, captured during the Dutch Grand Prix weekend.

Academy All Access: Episode 2

Go behind the scenes at the Williams Racing Driver Academy training camp as trainer Patrick Harding puts our drivers through their paces

Academy All Access: Episode 1

Lia Block launched into the sky in Nitrocross while Sara Matsui raced in Dubai

Academy Report: Lia sends it at Salt Lake

Celebrate her birthday by taking a Lia Block-themed quiz

Happy Birthday, Lia!

Our Team Principal is excited for the future after Lia Block’s stellar Singapore weekend

Lia’s “strong progression” impresses JV 

Two personal best finishes for Lia Block around Marina Bay

Academy Report: Lia soars in Singapore

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.