Our partner Octave just made a big move in motorsport. On March 3, 2026, Octave announced a multi-year technical partnership with the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls (VCARB) Formula 1™ team. Octave will now serve as the team’s official Asset Lifecycle Management Partner. It’s a milestone worth celebrating. It also resonates closely with us, because of our own ties to the Octave ecosystem.
Under the new agreement, Octave will embed its Lifecycle Intelligence platform across the Racing Bulls’ operations. This includes Octave Attune EAM. The platform will run from the factory floor all the way to race weekend. The goal is simple but demanding: give the team one source of truth for asset and operational data. It also delivers real-time visibility into asset health. As a result, the team can catch problems before they cause disruption.
Octave CEO Mattias Stenberg framed the partnership around reliability and readiness. He explained that connecting operational data into one intelligence layer helps the Racing Bulls make earlier, better decisions. It also helps the team perform consistently under pressure. Racing Bulls Team Principal Alan Permane echoed that view. He pointed to how competitive and operationally demanding modern F1 has become. According to Permane, the partnership gives the team confidence that every asset and decision is tuned for performance.
To Sum up, this partnership fits an environment where margins are measured in milliseconds. There’s essentially zero tolerance for failure. That’s exactly the kind of high-stakes, high-precision setting Octave’s software is built for.
Formula 1 has long served as a proving ground for the technology behind our own industry. Now Octave is extending that F1 heritage into asset lifecycle management with the Racing Bulls. This reinforces something we already believe: the same principles that keep an F1 team running also apply to our industry. Data-driven decisions matter. Early intervention matters. Zero room for error matters. Because of this, we see the partnership as a strong validation of the technology we rely on every day.
We’re excited to watch this partnership unfold over the coming seasons. We’re also curious to see how lessons learned trackside shape the tools we use in our own operations. After all, the technology behind elite motorsport and the technology behind our business aren’t as far apart as they might seem.
Octave. “Octave partners with Visa Cash App Racing Bulls to unleash intelligence at scale.” Octave Newsroom, Press Releases, March 3, 2026. https://www.octave.com/newsroom/press-releases/2026/octave-partners-with-visa-cash-app-racing-bulls
Hexagon. “Oracle Red Bull Racing — Innovation Partnership.” Hexagon Partner Directory and Programmes.https://hexagon.com/company/partner-directory-and-programmes/mi/oracle-red-bull-racing
