Lia Block is AMAZING!

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This or not. I don't know if you guys care about

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cars. The thing that you guys drive. I don't

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really know. But anyways. Going to talk about

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Leah Block a little bit. If you're into cars,

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you probably know who Ken Block is. Spoiler alert.

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Leah Block is the daughter of Ken Block. Ken

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Block started the very famous D .C. Shoes Company

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in 1994, which was very, very hip when I was

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a teenager. It was my favorite skate shoe. Oh,

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yeah. I still wear DC shoes today. Not every

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day, but yes, I still wear them. I love them.

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Then obviously everyone knows he went into rally

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car racing. One of my drain jobs, by the way,

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the only reason why I became an engineer is because

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I had this thought I was going to make a lot

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of money as an engineer. I was going to go rally

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car racing. Didn't work out that way, but he

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would then obviously go on to rally. for Subaru

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and Ford, and he is most known for his amazing

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YouTube videos of stuff that he's doing with

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his cars. We all have seen them. They're amazing.

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If you haven't, please check them out. Unfortunately,

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Ken Block passed away back in 2023 in a snowmobile

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accident. Very tragic. We're not here to talk

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about the legend, but rather the legacy. So his

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His daughter, Leah Block, is starting to make

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some noise. Leah Block signed with Williams Racing,

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my favorite F1 team, and started racing in the

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F1 Academy season in 2024 and then resigned for

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2025 and 2024. She had two P4 finishes and finished,

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I believe, in eighth place out of 21 racers.

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That's not bad for the 17 year old. Yeah, she

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just turned 18. I'm looking at a thing. I brought

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it up the the thing on her. She's 18 years old

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and is already placing an F1. Well, like F1 Academy.

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Yeah, I'm still saying like that's still an accomplishment.

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Oh, yeah, definitely. You're 100%. She's a kid.

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Well, why don't you bring that up? Because she

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started in 2020. 2021, I believe when she made

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her rally debut at the age of 14. She knew she

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rallied full -time 2023. She competed in the

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American Rally Association in the open two -wheel

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drive becoming the youngest champion ever in

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that series history in 2024. She competed with

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Subaru in an open class, which is insane. That's

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the class everyone cares about. had a but had

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a minor wreck while she was in third place. Very

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impressive. But yeah, this is this is her kind

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of like carrying on the legacy. I love it. I

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was a huge Ken Block fan. I was huge into cars.

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The only time I skipped school was to literally

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go to the junkyard and pull parts off of cars

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so I could go race on the weekends. But yeah.

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What what do you think? I I think that anybody

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who can accomplish that level of stuff by the

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age of 18. Right. Like doing Rowley at 14. Like

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that's you got to give somebody. Their props,

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right. Youngest American Rally Association champion

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at 17 years old. Right. Racing in Jetta. Yeah,

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I mean you you you have to give them their props

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because that is not easy to do It's just not

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you know Like and here's the thing racers. I've

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met those guys are good athletes You are controlling

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those cars at speeds and at g -forces that are

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insane Right the kind of of reflexes you need

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to have the kind of like ability you need to

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have to do those kind of races That it's it's

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not simple to do You know, so good for her Awesome

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carrying on her her family's legacy Yeah, I mean

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it's just it's really really cool Just come back

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in 2025 to do some more. F1 is huge. You know,

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I love F1. The only time I've heard about Vegas

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being packed like full was when they did that

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F1 race through Vegas. Yeah. F F1, I love, you

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know, I've never been like a huge NASCAR fan.

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That's because they drive in a circle. Yeah,

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driving. That's why they go like places. You're

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like literally in like pretty much like a freaking

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jet. You're like a fighter pilot. I mean, yeah,

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those things are like this far off the ground,

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like little wings. Yep. It cost like a million.

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Each car costs millions and millions and millions

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of dollars. If you make like a slight hiccup,

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you're done. That's it. Pack it in. So yeah,

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I've always loved F1. My favorite team is Williams

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because they were the last family owned F1 team.

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That's not true anymore. After the creator passed

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away, his daughter took it over for a little

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bit, but then ended up selling it. So the Williams

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family no longer owns. the Williams team, which

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was like my whole reason why I really loved them,

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but still really like them. So when I saw Leah

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Block was in their F1 Academy, I was like, oh,

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wow, this is amazing. But yeah, I F1 insane rally

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car racing insane. I think I like when you talk

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about like racing cars. I like when you have

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some sort of like skill that you have to put

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into it. Oh, yeah. Never cared about drag racing,

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because that's kind of like who has the most

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money to dump into their cars, essentially. And

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drive very straight, very fast, very straight,

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very fast. And yeah, rally car racing like it's

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anything could happen. It takes a lot of skill.

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Yeah. Somebody in the chat was talking about

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the courses being just brutal. Yeah. You know,

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which is true. Yeah. Are you yelling if one you

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guys like it? Let us know what you think down

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in the comments below.