Lia Block enjoyed her first F1 car experience earlier this summer when she drove the iconic FW08 at Goodwood but returned to wheel-to-wheel racing this weekend.
F1 Academy had tested at Zandvoort before, but this was Lia's first racing action around the Dutch dunes in her rookie single-seater season.
Read on below to see how she handled inclement weather and a super Sunday of racing.
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The stop-start rain that blighted Friday and Saturday's F1 sessions also caused havoc for F1 Academy as the championship fired up for Round 4 of its 2024 season.
Track improvements on the slowly drying surface frustratingly demoted Lia from a potential front-row start to the midfield, but she was on the pace.
After a two-month break since the Barcelona race, Lia had to wait another day to get into wheel-to-wheel action after Race 1's postponement.
The 16 drivers sat on the grid for over 30 minutes thanks to a storm hitting the coast during Saturday's formation lap before an overnight delay.
With an early start for Lia, she spent much of the rescheduled race in P8, fending off the attention of Hamda Al Qubaisi while also trying to overtake Aurelia Nobels.
Sadly, after having to adapt her racing line while following Nobels, Al Qubaisi got through on the final lap, and Lia finished P9.
A stall at the start of Race 2 and no Safety Car period prevented any further points, with a P15 classification at the end of the 17 laps.
It marked a new F1 Academy experience for Lia, who had to tackle two races in a day in the all-female championship for the first time.
F2 and F3's extended break ends next weekend for the Monza round that Franco Colapinto and Zak O'Sullivan will contest.
But it's all attention on Luke Browning, who goes into the F3 finale with every chance of becoming the champion in a showdown weekend.
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