Lia Block will be glad to put the first weekend of the season behind her after the Williams driver endured a disheartening outing in Shanghai.

Lia Block will be glad to put the first weekend of the 2025 season behind her after the Williams driver endured a disheartening outing in Shanghai from her opening lap.

‘It’s about picking yourself up’ – Block insists there was ‘huge potential’ in Shanghai as she reflects on salvaging points

Following the conclusion of Free Practice in Shanghai, Rafaela Ferreira has been handed a grid penalty for both F1 ACADEMY races in Round 1.

Ferreira handed post-Practice penalty and Block to miss Shanghai Qualifying

The French team are setting themselves up well with a talented trio who all have room to grow., but can they bring ART back to winning ways? 

Finishing bottom of the Teams’ Standings in 2024, ART Grand Prix will be far from content with how last year’s campaign panned out. 
Ending up 279 points adrift of Champions PREMA Racing is a telling statistic but, at times, the gap between their drivers’ performance was not as big as their final points tally suggests. 
Retaining Williams’ Lia Block and PUMA driver Aurelia Nobels alongside recruiting Haas’ Courtney Crone, the French team are setting themselves up well with a talented trio who all have room to grow. So, can they bring ART back to winning ways in F1 ACADEMY this season? 

TEAM GUIDE: ART Grand Prix trio looking to turn around their team’s fortunes in 2025 

Before her sophomore campaign kicks off next month, we caught up with the PUMA driver as she shared her thoughts about her motorsport heroes. 

Aurelia Nobels was already excited heading into 2025 and now the Brazilian racer has got even more to look forward to as she returns to the F1 ACADEMY grid with PUMA.
Before her sophomore campaign kicks off next month, we caught up with Nobels as she shared her thoughts about her motorsport heroes. Alongside admiring one of racing’s homegrown greats, the Scuderia Ferrari Driver Academy member revealed her dream of meeting another legendary figure now he’s joined the Prancing Horse. 

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07/03/2001

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Nobels

07/01/2007

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Block

01/10/2006

American

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