Formula One team Oracle Red Bull Racing is expanding its use of Oracle's cloud and AI offerings for the 2025 season which begins this weekend.

Starting this season, Oracle Red Bull Racing will now use the new OCI Compute A2 and OCI Compute A4 Flex shapes to increase simulation speeds by 10 percent which will enable the team to run more simulations each week and improve its race day decisions.

The team claims to have already sped up simulation times by 25 percent since migrating to OCI in 2021.

The team will also be bringing generative AI to the pit wall with Oracle to query historical regulations and generate responses in real-time using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) coupled with a large language model (LLM).

The Red Bull Ford Powertrains, which is developing the next generation sustainable fuel engine for Oracle Red Bull Racing for the 2026 season, is also using OCI to run its simulation.

Further expansions include the use of Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) solutions to improve the experience for fans, and the standardization of all Oracle Red Bull Racing trackside infrastructure - including car sensor monitors, dashboard displays, and garage computers - to run on Oracle Virtualization, Oracle Linux, and Oracle Cloud Native Environment.

The latter will mean that IT team members can run the same code on the same operating system in OCI as well as locally.

“Since the start of our partnership, Oracle has given us a technical advantage that has helped us win races, championships, and fans,” said Christian Horner, CEO and team principal, 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. From the factory to the podium, Oracle Cloud and AI technologies continue to provide the insights that help make Oracle Red Bull Racing one of the most successful teams in Formula One history.”

“Oracle Red Bull Racing has approached its technology strategy with the same relentless focus on performance that has underpinned its dominance on the track,” added Karan Batta, senior vice president, 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.”

The 2025 Formula One season started today, March 14, and will run till December 7.

Oracle became the title sponsor of Red Bull Racing in 2022, leading to the team name change, but has been providing OCI services since 2021.

DCD has previously covered the computation needs of Formula One in-depth. Read more here.