{"id":525930,"date":"2026-03-10T03:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525930\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:27:12","slug":"ex-f1-academy-racer-lia-block-targets-ara-title-in-hyundai-rally2-car-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525930\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-F1 Academy racer Lia Block targets ARA title in Hyundai Rally2 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former F1 Academy driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lia-block\/955206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lia Block<\/a> has confirmed that she will be competing in the 2026 American Rally Association National Championship in\u00a0a Hyundai i20 N Rally2.<\/p>\n<p>Block made her American Rally Association debut in 2021 before taking a full-time role in 2022. In 2023, she raced in the Open Two-Wheel-Drive class and became the youngest champion in the series at 16 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 and 2025, the American driver switched to single-seaters, and she joined the Williams Racing driver academy and raced in the all-female racing series, F1 Academy.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving F1 Academy at the end of 2025, Block decided to return to the world of rally rather than pursue a future in single-seaters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m stepping up to the RC2 class in a Hyundai Rally2 car, which is very exciting for me,\u201d Block told <a href=\"https:\/\/dirtfish.com\/rally\/ara\/lia-block-to-fight-for-ara-title-in-hyundai-i20-n-rally2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DirtFish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously a big step up from the 2023 championship and the Rally3 car, but I believe in myself and my ability to learn new cars and new disciplines very quickly, so I\u2019m just really excited for the road ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Discussing her goal of winning the championship, she added: \u201cI think it\u2019s very, very possible to be fighting for the championship and that\u2019s what I will be working towards.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/lia-block-art-grand-prix.jpg\" alt=\"Lia Block, ART Grand Prix\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Lia Block, ART Grand Prix<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Simon Galloway \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, as you know, rally is a very unpredictable sport and things can happen two corners from the finish, and I learned that already this year!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve already showed my talent in rally by winning the rear-wheel-drive championship in 2023, but the overall championship is definitely what I\u2019m going for, and of course it\u2019s a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this year won\u2019t have a lack of competition, and I think that\u2019s going to be the most difficult part. But I really, really do look forward to it. It\u2019s about restating myself in the world of rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019ll just be taking it as a learning opportunity every time I\u2019m back in the car and having fun because I think that\u2019s the most important thing, and definitely what I\u2019ve missed from rally in the previous years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 Academy driver Lia Block has confirmed that she will be competing in the 2026 American Rally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,206867,578,56488,576,577,94802,206868,6549,206869,82,4962],"class_list":["post-525930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ex-f1-academy-racer-lia-block-targets-ara-title-in-hyundai-rally2-car","tag-f1","tag-f1-academy","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lia-block","tag-other-rally","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-international-circuit","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525930","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=525930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}