{"id":189566,"date":"2025-10-04T13:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189566\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T13:39:08","slug":"lia-block-celebrates-maiden-f1-academy-win-after-restart-masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/189566\/","title":{"rendered":"Lia Block celebrates maiden F1 Academy win after restart masterclass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/art-grand-prix\/136\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ART Grand Prix;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ART Grand Prix<\/a> F1 Academy driver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lia-block\/955206\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lia Block;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Lia Block<\/a>, backed by the Williams Formula 1 team, secured her maiden victory in the all-female racing series in Race 1 in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The American driver started from pole position for the reverse grid race and successfully defended her position and managed two safety car restarts perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel great,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f1academy.com\/Latest\/4nPXRe5DrMxOkjI3BXVojo\/i-was-happy-about-that-block-reveals-crucial-approach-behind-her-first-f1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Block said after the race;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Block said after the race<\/a>. &#8220;It wasn\u2019t a great qualifying or start to the weekend yesterday, but topping it off with a win, so I can go home now! Just kidding, I still have another race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a difficult first half of the race. Thankfully, there was a lot of fighting behind me, so I could just focus on myself. I figured some stuff out, got some more time out of the car and chilled to the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was looking in my mirrors a couple of times to see how close Maya was, but I just kept focusing on myself. It was pretty easy to the end, no squabbles, one lock-up, but we did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>There were two safety car restarts during the race on lap 3 and 10.<\/p>\n<p>Lia Block, ART Grand Prix<img alt=\"Lia Block, ART Grand Prix\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/40cd92fabbad205e2cbbe4373501009f.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lia Block, ART Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere it\u2019s just about trying to catch people off guard because there are not many places to strategically do a restart,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I was just waiting for Maya to weave in my mirrors and then floor it from there. Both of my restarts were pretty good. I was happy about that \u2014 gave me some breathing room for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to Race 2 tomorrow, the Williams Driver Academy driver added: \u201cIt\u2019s full circle now. I started from the bottom and now we\u2019re at the top. It feels really good. Just means I have to work 10 times harder tomorrow to get another good result, but super happy with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Block made her F1 Academy debut in 2024. With just Race 2 in Singapore and Round 7 in Las Vegas remaining in the season, the 19-year-old driver is yet to confirm her racing plans for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>To read more Motorsport.com articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit our website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ART Grand Prix F1 Academy driver, Lia Block, backed by the Williams Formula 1 team, secured her maiden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[94803,49,48,578,576,577,94802,94804,82,94805],"class_list":{"0":"post-189566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-art-grand-prix","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-lia-block","15":"tag-maiden-victory","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-williams-driver-academy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}