Red Bull Motorsports Oracle Red Bull Sim Racing are the best sim racing team in the world. They have just retained their F1 Sim Racing World crown, their fourth in total and in Jarno Opmeer and Frederik Rasmussen boast two drivers’ world champions backed by Sebastian Job, a double iRacing World Champion. But how do Oracle Red Bull Racing translate success in sim racing to glory in F1? 01 Building the world’s best sim racing team Since the introduction of the F1 Sim Racing World Championship, Oracle Red Bull Racing has led the way, using the competition to bring new fans closer to F1. By bringing the sim team on to the Red Bull Racing Factory campus in Milton Keynes and providing a dedicated eSports arena where the team can compete. “Since F1 teams have got involved in sim racing, Red Bull have been pioneers: they want to have the best drivers and compete for wins,” says Sebastian Job. “They had a very strong team from the start and have always been on the front foot.” 02 Taking F1 methods into the eSports arena Oracle Red Bull Racing has applied the same technical and strategic approach it uses in F1 to the esports team, giving them access to Oracle’s cloud-based computing infrastructure, real-time data dashboards and lap-by-lap analytics to help drivers improve performance in virtual races. “Every tool that we’ve been developing for the Sim Racing team has been derived straight from what we know from Formula 1,” says Dan Smith, technical partnerships executive at Oracle Red Bull Racing. And four-time F1 World Champion Max Verstappen is also one of the biggest advocates for eSports. “When I'm sim racing, I'm doing the same as I do in real life. You can look at the data – your steering inputs, your