Lagos, Nigeria — October 5, 2025. Westbrook Racing signed off the penultimate round of the UIM E1 World Championship with its strongest qualifying performance of the season and a hard-earned sixth place overall in Lagos. With lots of Championship points on offer in the Miami finale , taking place 7-8th November 2025, the Team still have one more big opportunity to step onto the Podium.
From shakedown onward the Westbrook Racing RaceBird showed front-running pace, with Lucas Ordóñez and Sara Price trading quick laps through Free Practice and delivering our best Qualifying Time Trials result as a team. Although a slightly delayed launch start in the Qualifying Race cost track position, the team ended Saturday on a high and turned attention to Sunday’s showdown.
Race day brought heavy rain, thunder and lightning that forced schedule changes and left debris across the lagoon. Sara made a perfect start in the Group Stage Race, seizing the lead into Buoy 1 and opening a comfortable gap, before collecting a net/fishing line that wrapped around the propeller. With top speed hugely compromised she was passed by boat after boat.
With the revised schedule and no chance for redemption the Team regrouped for the afternoon Place Race, where Lucas produced a composed and confident drive to win the Race and lock in P6 for the weekend.
Across the garage, it was a collective performance: sharp preparation throughout the week, strong strategy calls, and clean execution by crew and drivers under pressure. The team was thrilled to race in Lagos for the first time, embracing the city’s energy and the significance of E1’s African debut. Throughout the weekend, Westbrook Racing also hosted guests—including high-profile partners from Caverton Aviation—showcasing our premium hospitality experience that creates meaningful business development opportunities around the sport.
“This was a complete team effort in challenging conditions ,” said Phil Allen, Westbrook Racing Team Principal. “Our organisation, strategy and pace across practice and Time Trials showed what this team is capable of. That’s why it’s frustrating not to convert at the level our performance deserves—earlier in the year it was technical issues, today it was debris in the water. Even so, we remain confident that our package and approach are right. We go to Miami with high expectations and, with Will Smith joining us, we’re determined to demonstrate exactly what Westbrook Racing is about.”
With Lagos in the books and only Miami remaining, Westbrook Racing will carry the pace and lessons from Africa’s historic E1 debut into the season finale, aiming to convert qualifying form into a bigger haul of championship points.
Championship Standings
- Team Brady – 154 pts
- Team Rafa – 151 pts
- Team Blue Rising – 145 pts
- Aoki Racing Team – 134 pts
- Westbrook Racing – 94 pts
- Team Drogba Global Africa – 90 pts
- Team Brazil by Claure Group – 89 pts
- Team AlUla championed by LeBron James – 84 pts
- Team Miami – 39 pts
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