The 2023 motorsport calendar is starting to wind down for the year, particularly for the members of the Williams Racing Driver Academy.

Just one driver was in action this past weekend, with Lia Block competing in Round 9 and 10 of the 2023 Extreme E Championship. Read on below to find out more.

Lia Block headed to the stunning landscape of Antofagasta, Chile last weekend for the season-ending final rounds of the 2023 Extreme E Championship.

Lia has been competing for Carl Cox Motorsport in the all-electric off-road racing series since Round 5, and unsurprisingly she hit the ground running at the Copper X-Prix.

Alongside her teammate Timo Scheider, they secured P3 in both their qualifying heats for Round 9 across the 3.05km course in the Atacama Desert, but that wasn’t enough to secure them a spot in the Grand Final.

Instead, it was a spot in the Redemption Race, with the pair both enjoying untroubled runs to race clear of the JBXE and Chip Ganassi Racing teams to cross the line in P1.

Onto Round 10 and a P3 and P4 in their qualifying heat put the Carl Cox Motorsport team in P7 and into the Redemption Race for the finale.

Timo was on a charge but before he could arrive at the switch zone to put Lia behind the wheel, a mechanical failure forced the team to end the third season of Extreme E with a DNF.

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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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