Lost Formula 1 Round Pin

FORMULA-1 (F1)

Yago’s Round Pin 

“Look back, in order to see forward.”

Based off (and scaled from) 2025 World Champion Yago Dora’s Lowers-winning6’0RoundPin surfboard.In celebration of Yago’s freshly minted World Title, we are“early releasing”hisRound Pin tail version of the all-new FORMULA-1, for Fall’25.

The Formula-1 was originally an older model, made popular by Julian Wilson 15 years ago. We completely updated it and recently brought it back to life, testing under the feet of Cole Houshmand and 2025 World Champ Yago Dora, among others.

It all started with a team day down at Lowers, filming all the boys riding a collection of vintage team rider boards pulled from the attic for our still-unreleased“USED”edit.

Among the collection (ranging from the’80s–2010s), a pair of Julian Wilson’s F1 boards from 2010 and 2011 were hits, inspiring me to...“Look back, in order to see forward.”

We searched out the original“AKU”file from Julian’s magic Lowers“Clown”board and overlapped it on top of a current Driver 3.0 team board, incorporating many of the original’s design aspects and curves, melding the two together...to create something completely new.

At first, we developed a squash tail version, similar to the old Julian board, and got it under the feet of Cole Houshmand and other local team riders, with electric responses. Cole rode his first one to great success in multiple WSL events—El Salvador, Lowers, and finallywinning the WCT event in Brazil.

Feeling onto something, we made a handful of Round Pin tails leading up to the Lowers CT event.

We gave one of the first F-1 Round Pin versions to Yago mid-event, just a couple of nights before Finals Day at Lowers. He tried it that night and was so impressed, he switched to a brand-new board, riding it in the Semi-Finals and Final—winning our home event on this design. A prototype test F-1 Round Pin.

In relation to the Driver3.0:

- In general, the new F1, is more “set back”, in both outline and rail line rocker, than the Driver3.0. 

- The nose is a bit narrower at 12” and 24”, with the wide point a bit further back and more hip, in the outline. Its got more outline and rail-line curve, from the between the feet, through the tail, which is wider 12” from the tail (under the rear foot) with more curve and pulled in from there.

- A more defined “pin” in the last few inches, than the Driver3.0’s “Round” tail, for added bite and connectivity.

- The F-1 features a fairly thick centerline, with a “vee" deck, tapering to rails that are a bit more full and forgiving. 
 - A bit more nose rocker, ahead of the front foot and touch less tail rocker, but with more concave between the feet and through the tail.
- Noticeably deeper single concave, with purposeful double concave, all the way through the rear fin, lending speed and lift.