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This weekend Ben Northrop is hosting select TEAM Cloud customers and partners at the 2026 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.
The 2026 Formula 1 “new era” introduces major changes including active aerodynamics, new driver energy and overtaking tools, and hybrid power units with dramatically increased electrical contribution and sustainable fuels. These innovations raise the stakes for strategy, simulation, and AI-powered decision-making, areas where high-performance cloud infrastructure is critical.
Oracle Red Bull Racing leverages Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle AI to deliver:
The Australian Grand Prix is as much an experience-driven destination event as it is a motorsport weekend. The F1 Paddock Club are explicitly designed around premium track positioning and behind-the-scenes access such as pit lane walks. Ben will be hosting TEAM Cloud guests to experience the kickoff to the 2026 racing season.
F1 results are achieved through systems thinking, telemetry, engineering iteration, and decision-making under uncertainty. This is where Oracle technology delivers the data handling, security, and AI innovation required to be at the top of the podium.
The 2026 regulations reshape both the machine and racecraft. “Active Aero” replaces traditional DRS, enabling wing mode changes and driver tools such as “Overtake Mode” and “Boost.” Energy deployment and timing are now central to race outcomes. The FIA confirms that active aero helps conserve energy for hybrid power units that rely heavily on electrical energy. The redesigned 1.6L hybrid power unit has a 300 percent increase in battery power and an almost even split between internal combustion and electric power.
Oracle Red Bull Racing ran 6 billion simulations per race in 2025. OCI enables one million Monte Carlo simulations per second, scaling with a modern stack equipped with Kubernetes. Each car can generate up to 2 TB of telemetry per session, feeding real-time sensors and monitoring systems. Real-time data pipelines are operational requirements that allow teams to fuse telemetry, track conditions, and event data to influence race decisions.
For 2026 Oracle Red Bull Racing are implementing an AI-powered strategy agent that works alongside engineers to formulate race strategy. The next-generation simulation references energy usage, active aero configurations, deployment windows, tire interactions, and thousands of potential scenarios. This is strategy optimisation at scale, exploring an expanded decision space fast enough to act before the window closes.
TEAM Cloud delivers this same capability to New Zealand organisations. As a sovereign hyperscale cloud powered by OCI with two local regions, TEAM Cloud allows businesses to deploy workloads with full in-country data residency, resilience, and access to cloud and AI capabilities under Kiwi ownership and governance.
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