MIAMI BEACH, FL – Tom Brady still has the competitive fire to win everything he can.
Brady, the retired seven-time Super Bowl champion in the NFL, could celebrate his second consecutive trophy in a different sport when the UIM E1 World Championship hosts its final race weekend of the 2025 season in Miami’s Biscayne Bay on Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8
E1 is all-electric boat racing with an eclectic group of team owners like Brady, entertainers Will Smith and Marc Anthony, tennis legend Rafael Nadal, basketball’s all-time scoring leader LeBron James, DJ and producer Steve Aoki, Indian cricketer Virat Kohli, soccer legend Didier Drogba and billionaire Marcelo Claure.
Brady says one of his favorite aspects of E1 has been the friendships he’s cultivated with others considered the greatest of all time in their respective fields. He considers Anthony “a great friend” and cherished playing golf with Nadal when the series stopped in Monaco in July.
“We have a great chat that we all kind of talk a lot of (expletive) on, so that’s the best part,” Brady said with a smile during an interview with USA TODAY Sports.
“Fortunately, because I’ve been winning, I can talk the most. But we have a great time. We all share a similar competitive edge. We’re all just very into competing and winning.”
E1 co-founders Alejandro Agag and Rodi Basso are credited with launching the sport in 2020. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is an investor in the league.
Each team has a male and female pilot who operate Racebirds, or single-seat powerboats with downward-shaped hydrofoil wings to help the boat essentially fly slightly above the water.
“I got asked to be involved a few years ago. My friend Alejandro, who’s one of the kind of founders of the sport, put together a really cool group of people that talked about the competition, but also talked about the innovation, technology and sustainability aspect of it, too,” Brady said.
The Miami race will be the first in the United States for the E1 series, which began in 2024. It’ll also be the seventh and final race of the 2025 E1 season after stops in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Doha, Qatar; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Lago Maggiore (Italy and Switzerland); Monaco and Lagos, Nigeria.
Four of the nine teams have a chance to win the 2025 title with Team Brady leading with 154 points before the final race. Team Rafa (151), Kohli’s Team Blue Rising (145) and Aoki Racing Team (134) are next in the mix.
It’s still all about winning for Brady. He credited Team Brady pilots Emma Kimiläinen and Sam Coleman, team principles Ben King and Joe Sturdy, and his engineers for keeping his team in contention for a second straight championship.
“Well, that’s why we’re doing it – to win. We’re here to compete, and we’re here to challenge ourselves to get better and better every single week,” said Brady, ever the competitor.
“I just know they have a great group of people involved. Our pilots are amazing. Our engineers are incredible. Our mechanics are incredible. We have great teamwork, we have great consistency. And there’s people that are just hold themselves to a very high standard.”
Brady participated in two panels before the Miami E1 race on Thursday night, so he wasn’t sitting in the coaches’ box as a minority owner when the Las Vegas Raiders played on Thursday Night Football on the road against the Denver Broncos.
After the race Saturday, Brady will travel to call Sunday’s game on FOX between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers in Santa Carla, CA.
Maybe, he’ll celebrate the 2025 Champions of the Water title on his trip to the West Coast.
“It’s really been a great experience, certainly in this second chapter of my life,” Brady said of his E1 ownership.
How to watch E1 Miami GP race on TV/live stream?
The E1 Miami event is available to watch on CBS Sports Network on TV in the U.S., and globally on DAZN. E1 also provides a live stream on YouTube.