BIOGRAPHY
Lia is a Williams Racing Academy Driver competing in F1 Academy with ART Grand Prix for her second season in 2025.
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 was 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.
Lia had an impressive debut year in single seaters in 2024, quickly adapting to a new style of racing. She improved throughout the season, reaching a high of fourth in Singapore and rounding out the year eighth in the drivers’ championship.
In 2024, Lia also 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 gruelling 34 hours of rally racing in Mexico.
In 2025, Lia strengthens her long motorsport career, continuing as a Williams Racing driver in the 2025 F1 Academy season. This will be Lia’s second season in the series racing for ART Grand Prix.