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"This is a trial year": Lia Block on F1 Academy, social media stress, and more

In a way, motorsports fans have watched Lia Block grow up before their eyes. As the daughter of famed wheelman Ken Block, she made her first on-camera appearance at the age of 13 (learning how to do donuts, of course), in a YouTube clip that drew more than three million views. 

But since her father’s tragic passing in January of 2023, she’s established herself as a cross-series racing star in her own right. She won the two-wheel-drive class of last year’s American Rally Association championship, competed across the world in Extreme E and Nitrocross, and even won the Pro Stock UTV class of the Baja 1000 alongside her mom, Lucy.

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