Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team Partners with Microsoft on Technology

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft, integrating cloud and AI technologies to support performance from factory to track.

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team has announced a multi-year partnership with Microsoft, placing the company’s technologies at the core of its operations, from factory processes to decision-making at the racetrack. The collaboration aims to drive efficiency and innovation at a time when Formula 1 is approaching one of the most significant technical shifts in its modern history.

The timing of the partnership is deliberate. The 2026 Formula 1 regulations are set to introduce a new era defined by increased electrification, greater efficiency, and a stronger focus on sustainability. For teams, this transition demands faster data processing, more accurate simulations, and sharper decision-making under strict financial and technical constraints. Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team is turning to Microsoft to help build the digital foundation required for that challenge.

A modern Formula 1 car is, at its core, a high-intensity data platform. Each Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 car is equipped with more than 400 sensors, generating over 1.1 million data points every second. From tyre degradation and aerodynamic behaviour to energy recovery systems and changing track conditions, every variable must be interpreted in real time, where even milliseconds can determine the outcome.

Through the partnership, Microsoft Azure and its AI capabilities will expand the team’s existing high-performance computing and data infrastructure, both at its Brackley and Brixworth facilities and at race events. Scalable cloud resources will support simulation workloads, performance analysis, race strategy modelling, and cross-team analytics, while Azure Kubernetes Service will allow computing capacity to scale up or down as required, in line with financial and regulatory limits.

Software development and collaboration are another key focus. Microsoft 365 and GitHub are already embedded in the team’s technical and operational workflows, and their use is set to deepen. The goal is to accelerate engineering development, improve consistency across departments, and streamline the path from concept to implementation.

The agreement also builds on more than three decades of collaboration between Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz across the automotive value chain, spanning digital manufacturing platforms, vehicle telemetry, and cloud-based engineering systems. That long-standing relationship now extends into Formula 1, a domain where data volumes, speed, and reliability are pushed to the extreme.

As the sport prepares for the 2026 season, the partnership between Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team and Microsoft stands as a strategic move rather than a conventional sponsorship. It underlines a broader reality of modern Formula 1: competitive advantage is increasingly shaped not only on the track, but within the digital infrastructure that turns vast streams of data into decisive performance gains.