Oracle Red Bull Racing Boosts AI and Cloud Tech for 2025 F1

Oracle Red Bull Racing has announced an expansion of its Oracle Cloud and AI technologies deployment for the 2025 Formula One season, which begins this week with the Louis Vuitton Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

The F1 team runs billions of simulations on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) before and during each race to develop data-driven strategies that respond to variations in car performance, track conditions and competitor actions.

For the 2025 season, Oracle Red Bull Racing will implement the new OCI Compute A2 and OCI Compute A4 Flex shapes to increase simulation speeds by 10%. This enhancement will enable the team to run additional simulations each week to test more scenarios and refine race-day decisions.

Since migrating its race strategy infrastructure to OCI in 2021, the team has already increased simulation speeds by 25%, which has contributed to its strategic advantage during races.

“Since the start of our partnership, Oracle has given us a technical advantage that has helped us win races, championships and fans,” says Christian Horner, CEO and Team Principal of Oracle Red Bull Racing. “Performance gains are the lifeblood of competition in F1, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the best choice to help us reach our goals on the track.”

Oracle brings generative AI capabilities to pit wall for regulation reviews and powertrain development

In a new pilot programme, Oracle is helping Oracle Red Bull Racing implement generative AI on the pit wall. After races, teams have just 30 minutes to protest penalties, requiring rapid review of thousands of pages of historical regulatory rulings.

The Oracle generative AI solution combines retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with a large language model (LLM), allowing the team to query historical regulations and generate responses in real time, improving its capacity to navigate sporting regulations during race weekends.

Red Bull Ford Powertrains, which will supply hybrid power units for Oracle Red Bull Racing from the 2026 F1 season, is developing its sustainable fuel engine using OCI. The engineering team runs complex simulations on OCI to address the challenge of building a new engine development operation.

This year, OCI will support refinements to optimise performance and reliability as the powertrain transitions from prototype to production phase.

Oracle Red Bull Racing continues to expand its fan engagement platform, The Paddock, which operates on Oracle CrowdTwist Loyalty and Engagement. Since its launch in 2021, the platform has attracted hundreds of thousands of members across 156 countries.

Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience solutions have supported Oracle Red Bull Racing in connecting with fans through campaigns that use loyalty capabilities including content personalisation, user-generated content and members-only rewards.

Oracle Red Bull Racing standardises infrastructure with Oracle Virtualisation across factory and trackside systems

Beginning this season, all Oracle Red Bull Racing trackside infrastructure – including car sensor monitors, dashboard displays and garage computers – will operate on Oracle Virtualisation, Oracle Linux and Oracle Cloud Native Environment.

By implementing Oracle Linux, the team will use the same operating system that Oracle customers use on-premises and in the cloud, and that Oracle employs to run OCI. This standardisation means IT team members can run identical code on the same operating system in OCI and locally.

The consistency allows staff to transition work between locations – trackside, factory or remote – using the same operating environment, delivering cost and time efficiency by eliminating duplication and enhancing flexibility.

“Oracle Red Bull Racing has approached its technology strategy with the same relentless focus on performance that has underpinned its dominance on the track,” says Karan Batta, Senior Vice President of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “Our collective success is a testament to the performance and flexibility of Oracle Cloud and our teams' collaborative effort to push the boundaries of innovation.”

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