New Board Alert: Yago Dora's Lowers-Winning Racecar

Originally posted on SURFER | By August Howell | Last updated Nov 14, 2025 2:40 PM ET

Call it faith, confidence, or love, it takes a lot to pull a Championship Tour surfer off a familiar shape and onto something new. To have them change boards in the middle of an event where the conditions don’t drastically change is almost unheard of.

But that’s what Yago Dora did at the 2025 Lexus Trestles Pro. After already stampeding through the field and earning a quarterfinals berth, Matt Biolos gave him a new, rounded pintail to try on a layday. The thing clicked. Quiver spot secured. When his semifinal heat with Griffin Colapinto arrived, Yago grabbed the newbie. “It’s crazy because I had one session on it and the next session was in my heat and into the wind,” Yago said.

After boosting frontside and backside rotations on the cobblestone a-frame, Yago clinched his second event of the season, a win that helped lock in his No. 1 seed for the WSL Finals (which he dominated in two heats at Cloudbreak). Matt said the 29-year-old "looked as locked in as anyone I’ve ever seen on the Lowers left." Now, …Lost Surfboards has released the Lowers-winning board to the public.

By the time Yago first rode The Formula 1, last June, it was basically a prototype based on a 15-year-old model Julian Wilson used to ride, according to Matt. Yago literally rode the first roundtail in the new shape. The next month, Cole Houshmand rode this board as a squashtail en route to winning Saquarema.

The video above doesn’t feature much board banter. It’s mainly Yago tearing the bag out of Lowers and Cloudbreak. Full drive, if you will. For details about its nose rocker and deep concaves, click here. It’s a small sample size of events, but so far, the Formula 1 is off to a good start.

After a single session layday session in the middle of the 2025 Trestles Pro, Yago Dora was so sold on this ...Lost Surfboards prototype that he switched boards and won the contest. Meet the new Formula 1.

This article first appeared on SURFER and was syndicated with permission.

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