Oracle and Oracle Red Bull Racing are extending and expanding their title partnership as the latter prepares for the most significant regulation shift in modern Formula 1 history.
The extended partnership builds on the racing team’s legacy, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle AI underpinning the 2026 debut of Red Bull Ford Powertrains’ next-generation hybrid power unit, advanced race-strategy simulations, and a pioneering AI-powered strategy agent.
Oracle Red Bull Racing will also use Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance, HR, and marketing to increase productivity, reduce costs, and enhance the employee and fan experience.
Laurent Mekies, CEO and Team Principal, said that since Oracle became the Team’s title partner in 2022, the team has delivered three Drivers’ World Championships, two Constructors’ World Championships, and broken many records.
“We rely on Oracle’s invaluable expertise to help us understand and optimise countless variables with greater precision and speed than the competition,” said Mekies. “With Oracle Cloud and Oracle AI, we can adapt quickly, make smarter decisions, and sustain the level of performance required to win Championships, and we look forward to continued success in this multi-year partnership.”
Clay Magouyrk, CEO of Oracle, said the same technologies the Team uses to model strategy, refine its hybrid power unit, and deploy the latest AI innovations trackside are the ones powering transformation for companies across every industry.
The 2026 regulations fundamentally reshape how teams generate power, manage energy, and extract performance. Oracle Red Bull Racing will continue to rely on OCI, Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, and Oracle AI to pursue four key initiatives.
First, the two partners will implement a new AI-powered strategy agent, marking a major step forward in how race engineers process information and make decisions. The AI agent will automate data collection, interpret historical and real-time race inputs, and surface insights to help engineers respond more quickly to changing conditions.
Second, they will debut Red Bull Ford Powertrains’ next-generation hybrid engine, engineered with and tested extensively on OCI. The team relied 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.
Third, the 2026 regulations demand far more sophisticated modeling, and OCI enables the Team to run deeper, more granular simulations tailored to the new strategic landscape. These next-generation models account for energy usage, active aero configurations, deployment windows, tire interactions, and thousands of potential race scenarios.
This expanded simulation capability equips both drivers and strategists with clearer, data-driven guidance on how to optimize strategy decisions throughout a race weekend.
And fourth, with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, Oracle Red Bull Racing will leverage the latest AI capabilities embedded in the suite to increase efficiency, improve decision making, and maintain a competitive edge.
The team will use Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance, HR, and marketing to optimize planning and budgeting, simplify payroll, improve the employee experience, as well as deepen fan engagement through personalized content, members-only rewards, and an innovative fan loyalty program.
