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Park City’s Lia Block wins F1 Academy car race in Singapore

Michele Roepke

by Michele Roepke
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Lia Block wins her Singapore GP race in F1 Academy.

Lia Block wins her Singapore GP race in F1 Academy. Photo: courtesy of F1 Academy

SINGAPORE — Lia Block, 19, of Park City, won Race #1 of 2 in Singapore on Saturday and Sunday for her F1 Academy Team as a driver of the ART Grand Prix’s teams’ car during the Singapore Grand Prix.

The all-women, teenage team is rounded out by American Courtney Crone and Brazilian Aurelia Nobels.

Block races for Williams Racing Team.

The race was held on the Marina Bay Street Course on which Block was the Race #1 winner and the Race #2 winner was Dutch driver Maya Weug who competes for a division of Team Ferrari.

Now Block is ranked tenth in this the third the F1 Academy season’s standings as the tour travels on to series race number seven in Las Vegas after racing in China, Saudi Arabia, Miami, Montreal, and The Netherlands.
Some of the social media comments regarding her race included: “I know that Ken would shed a tear if he were there. She controlled that race from the start and 100% deserves to be on that top step.” And, “The long hug with mom says it all!”
British racer George Russel of the Mercedes Team won the headline event of the weekend among the men, second place went to Dutch-Belgian, Red Bull racer Max Verstappen third place was earned by Lando Norris from Great Britain of Team McClaren and just off the podium finishing fourth was Oscar Piastri , the Australian athlete also representing Team McClaren.

 

Michele Roepke

I've lived in Park City for 30 years but right off the starting line, my journalism professors expressed plaudits after class for writing more so about the small-town sports in the surrounding mountains than the urban updates they assigned. Therefore, I’m on par punning and penning Parkites' pastimes. Turning high and early through my career, I’ve worked communications for The Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. Additionally, there's been National Geographic, Patagonia, NCAA, USA Nordic and the United States Library of Congress, so I guess you could say this ain't my first rodeo.

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