US tech giant Oracle has recently enhanced its partnership with Red Bull Racing and introduced a new team name – Oracle Red Bull Racing, as well as the Team’s new car for the upcoming season, the RB18.
Under the partnership, the Oracle Red Bull Racing team will take advantage of the Oracle Cloud across its most significant areas of operation including analytics-based race strategy, optimised engine development, AI and machine learning-powered driver training and a tailored fan experience.
“Oracle Cloud enabled us to make race-day decisions that helped Max Verstappen win the 2021 Drivers’ Championship,” said Oracle Red Bull Racing Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner. “Discovering and reacting to opportunities quickly, is crucial to our success on and off the track, and Oracle is integral in that effort. Every element of our performance is driven by data analysis. Having Oracle as our title partner shows the confidence we have in their expertise and their ability to deliver a true competitive advantage.”
During last F1 season’s championship run, the Team was able to take advantage of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), allowing them to increase the number of simulations they ran by 1,000x to improve the accuracy of their predictions and sharpen their decision-making.
Additionally, they accelerated simulation speed by 10x, which gave race strategists more time to make the right call. The OCI also enabled the Team to significantly reduce the cost of billions of simulations. This allowed them to cost-effectively improve performance on the track, which is critical for success under F1’s stringent spending regulations.
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This season, OCI will enable the Oracle Red Bull Racing Team to expand the volume and variety of data they analyse and increase the speed at which simulations run in order to better predict tactics.
Oliver Hughes, chief marketing officer, Oracle Red Bull Racing, said, “We want to take fans with us on our competitive journey in F1, putting them right at the heart of the racing action and Oracle’s world class innovation and technology will help us achieve that goal.”
