The extended partnership builds on the team's successes. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle AI form the foundation for the debut of Red Bull Ford Powertrains' new hybrid power unit, advanced race strategy simulations, and a groundbreaking AI-driven strategy agent. Additionally, Oracle Red Bull Racing will use Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance, HR, and marketing to increase productivity, reduce costs, and enhance the experience of employees and fans.
Laurent Mekies, CEO and Team Principal: "Since Oracle became the title sponsor of the team in 2022, the team has achieved three world titles for drivers, two world titles for constructors, and many records have been broken. Our partnership with Oracle has been extraordinarily successful, and we are excited to continue together in this new era for F1. We rely on Oracle's indispensable expertise to understand and optimize countless variables with greater precision and speed than the competition. With Oracle Cloud and Oracle AI, we can adapt quickly, make smarter decisions, and maintain the performance level needed to win championships. We look forward to even more successes in this multi-year partnership."
Clay Magouyrk, CEO, Oracle: "Oracle Red Bull Racing relies on Oracle Cloud and Oracle AI to achieve the highest performance levels and solve some of the most complex and time-critical challenges in the world. The same technologies that the team uses to develop strategies, refine the hybrid power unit, and deploy the latest AI innovations trackside also enable transformation for businesses, in any sector. Whether on the track or within an organization, Oracle Cloud and Oracle AI deliver the speed and intelligence needed to win."
The regulations for 2026 fundamentally redefine how teams generate power, manage energy, and extract performance from a car. Oracle Red Bull Racing will continue to rely on OCI, Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, and Oracle AI to maintain its competitive advantage with four initiatives:
AI-driven strategy agent
- Oracle and Oracle Red Bull Racing will collaborate to implement a new AI-driven strategy agent. This is a significant step forward in how race engineers process information and make decisions.
- Developed with Oracle's extensive AI stack and designed to work alongside human engineers. The AI agent automates data collection, interprets historical and real-time race inputs, and surfaces insights to help engineers respond more quickly to changing conditions.
Next-generation hybrid power unit
- The debut of Red Bull Ford Powertrains' next-generation hybrid engine, developed and extensively tested on OCI, marks a significant milestone. As a newcomer, it is a considerable technical achievement to develop a power unit from scratch and compete with manufacturers that have decades of engine experience within four years.
- The team relies on OCI's high-performance computing, bare-metal infrastructure, and large-scale simulation capabilities to design, validate, and refine its power unit in record time.
- Oracle has supported the program from the beginning and will continue to deliver updates and integrations within OCI throughout the season.
Advanced race simulations
- The regulations for 2026 require much more advanced modeling, and OCI enables the team to conduct better, more detailed simulations tailored to the new strategic landscape. These next-generation models, much richer and more varied than in previous seasons, take into account energy consumption, active aerodynamic configurations, deployment moments, tire interactions, and thousands of possible race scenarios.
- This extensive simulation capability provides both drivers and strategists with clearer, data-driven guidelines to optimize strategic decisions throughout a race weekend.
- As F1 increasingly relies on advanced modeling and simulation, OCI provides the scale and speed that Oracle Red Bull Racing needs to test, learn, and adapt to changing conditions faster than the competition.
Operational excellence
- With Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle Red Bull Racing can leverage the latest AI capabilities embedded in the suite to increase efficiency, improve decision-making, and maintain a competitive advantage.
- The team will use Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance, HR, and marketing to optimize planning and budgeting, simplify payroll processing, enhance the employee experience, and deepen fan engagement through personalized content, exclusive member rewards, and an innovative fan loyalty program.
The Formula 1 season 2026 begins in Melbourne on March 5, 2026.
