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Block to make RallyX return at Crandon
Lia Block will return to rallycross, competing in the RallyX Americas season-opener at Crandon this weekend.
Block was the first woman to compete in an FC1 when she stood in for Travis Pastrana at Vermont SportsCar in the second round of the Glen Helen Raceway Nitrocross weekend in 2023, making the final but being classified eighth after a motor failure prevented her from making the start of the main event. It was a big year for the 19-year-old, who was the American Rally Association Open 2WD class champion with four wins in five rounds and won the Baja 1000 in a Pro Stock UTV.
For the last two seasons Block competed in F1 Academy, scoring two top-10 points finishes and a race victory while representing the Williams Driver Academy, and also making starts in Italian and Spanish Formula 4.
“I’m so excited to be back in the FC1 Hypercar for the first round of RallyX in North America!” she said. “Some of my favorite type of racing is wheel to wheel on dirt with jumps! Let’s go racing!”
Block will race an FC1 in the Hypercar class under the Block House Racing banner.
“Block House Racing is very excited for RallyX to come to North America,” said Block House Racing team principal Lucy Block. “The exhilaration of rallycross is hard to beat for drivers and fans alike! We will see you soon on the track.”
Block last competed in Nitrocross in 2024, competing in the four rounds – two events – of the aborted 2024-25 season, crashing heavily in the second final at Utah Motorsports Campus after having her vision obscured by thick dust and smoke and hitting the stricken car of Conner Martell at the final corner.
Her return to Rallycross comes after she became the first woman to lead the overall American Rally Association standings, where she has three top five finishes, including two podiums, from three classifications so far this season, competing in a Hyundai i20 N Rally2 alongside her late father Ken's former co-driver Alex Gelsomino.
Aside from Block, the Hypercar entry list for this weekend also features Brad DeBerti, Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky, Kevin and Oliver Eriksson, Robin Larsson, Tommi Hallman, Timmy Hansen, and Jimmy Henderson.
Watch the finals from this weekend’s RallyX Americas rounds at Crandon on RACER+.
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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