(Motorsport-Total.com) – Red Bull and title sponsor Oracle continue their journey together: The Formula 1 team has extended its title partnership with the US software giant Oracle for several years. At the heart of the collaboration is not only the new engine project for 2026, but also a revolutionary AI strategy agent that is already debuting at the racetrack this season.
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“Since Oracle became the team’s title partner in 2022, the team has won three Drivers’ World Championships and two Constructors’ World Championships, as well as breaking many records,” emphasizes Team Principal Laurent Mekies. “Our partnership with Oracle has been enormously successful, and we are very pleased that we will be entering this new era of F1 together.”
The deal goes far beyond pure sponsorship: Oracle will become the technological backbone for the largest regulation change in modern Formula 1 history.
The most exciting innovation for the current season is an AI strategy assistant. This system, based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), is designed to support race engineers in real time.
The AI agent automates data collection and interprets historical and current race data faster than a human could. The goal is to react to safety car phases or weather changes in fractions of a second.
A critical pillar of the partnership is the development of the new power units, which were developed together with Ford. Since Red Bull will be using its own engines for the first time from 2026, it must first catch up on an experience deficit compared to the competition. To do this, the team uses Oracle’s high-performance computers for complex simulations of the new hybrid unit.
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The 2026 regulations also require far more sophisticated modeling, and OCI enables the team to perform deeper, more detailed simulations tailored to the new strategic landscape. These next-generation models take into account energy consumption, active aerodynamics configurations, tire interactions, and thousands of potential race scenarios.
These enhanced simulation capabilities provide both drivers and strategists with clearer, data-driven guidance for optimizing strategy decisions during a race weekend.
“We rely on Oracle’s invaluable expertise to help us understand and optimize countless variables with greater precision and speed than the competition,” emphasizes Mekies. “With Oracle Cloud and Oracle AI, we can adapt quickly and make smarter decisions.”
Beyond the racetrack, the team will also use Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to optimize internal operations in finance and human resources.
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