🇺🇸 Lia Block

The youngest champion in American Rally Association history, and a driver who has already left the sport once and come back to it.

Born in 2006, she is the daughter of Ken Block — rally driver, Hoonigan founder and the man whose Gymkhana films did more to recruit a generation into rallying than any championship did. He died in a snowmobiling accident in January 2023. That year she won the ARA Open 2WD title at sixteen, with four wins and five podiums, alongside co-driver Rhiannon Gelsomino as the first all-woman crew to take an ARA national class. In the same season she co-drove for her mother, Lucy Block, to a Pro Stock UTV class win at the Baja 1000.

Two seasons in single-seaters followed, as Williams Racing's F1 Academy driver, producing a podium at Zandvoort and a win at Marina Bay. She left at the end of 2025 to go back to rallying, a decision she has traced to a mid-season weekend at Boone Forest Rally in Kentucky where she won her class in a Rally3 car. She now drives a Hyundai i20 N Rally2 in ARA, working with Derek Dauncey, who helped build her father's career.