Max Verstappen will have a world title chance in Las Vegas this week and Red Bull wants to close the deal as quickly as possible.
The team has been working hard on preparation, as Jack Harington, head of Red Bull's partnerships group, which works with software giant and main sponsor Oracle, explains.
“We carry out four billion simulations before arriving on the circuit” Harington said. “Then we take the data from EL1 and EL2, we feed it into the simulations and we start these four billion simulations again.”
“They always say that sometimes you have to stick your hand out to see if it's raining in the pit lane, but there are always variables that take you by surprise. The more simulations you do, the more things you see and the more we are likely to be able to respond effectively.”
Harington explained that Red Bull relies on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to limit expenses: “We can turn the cloud on before a race weekend…do these huge amounts of simulations, turn the cloud off and turn it back on when we need it.”
“Whereas before we had to invest in physical hardware to be able to run these simulations, it’s much more cost effective for us as well. Every strategy call that has won a race since 2021 has been made on OCI.”
Stephen Knowles, Senior Race Strategy Engineer at Red Bull, detailed how his department works with these tools: “For the more detailed planning of the race strategy, we will start about two weeks in advance.”
“Preliminary simulations scan a wide range of possible outcomes in terms of tire and car performance, as well as a wide range of potential incidents and their timing.”
“This allows us to plan our weekend, and in particular the use of the tires, with the objective of scoring as many points as possible, but allowing for enough contingencies to deal with the unexpected.”
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