How Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team uses Arm’s compute foundation to accelerate engineering from chip to cloud

Formula One™ is entering one of the most disruptive engineering periods in its history. For 2026, teams are required to design lighter cars, manage more active aerodynamics, and work with power units that depend far more on electrical energy. All of this must happen under cost caps and sustainability checks that leave little room for trial and error.

Each stage of development produces different insights, but the challenge is moving these seamlessly between systems and teams to make the necessary engineering improvements. As the official AI compute platform partner, Arm supports the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team across the entire engineering workflow, providing a consistent compute foundation from chip to cloud. The continuity allows engineers to develop, test, and deploy ideas and improvements faster, with fewer handoffs and less uncertainty. This is at a time when insights that bring effective updates to the car sooner are just as important as speed on track.

Engineering across the full workflow, from cloud to edge

Engineering inside a Formula One™ team does not happen in one place or on one timeline, with a variety of unique challenges for each. Aerodynamic development is constrained by tightly regulated wind tunnel time. Vehicle dynamics and control systems require large-scale cloud simulations. Trackside systems must operate reliably under real-time conditions where latency and predictability matter more than raw throughput.

Each environment places different demands and constraints on compute. For instance, wind tunnel systems prioritise deterministic, repeatable, real-time results, while cloud simulation focuses on scale and iteration speed. For the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team, the big overall challenge is ensuring that data, software models, and engineering assumptions remain coherent as work moves between these environments.

Arm helps maintain that coherence by delivering a consistent compute architecture across edge devices, physical testing systems, and cloud infrastructure. This chip-to-cloud approach closes the loop between the wind tunnel, simulator, trackside systems, vehicle sensors and other AI-powered insights, which enables the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team to carry and act on trusted engineering insights from one stage to the next without reworking software or revalidating results from scratch. This reduces friction between teams and shortens development cycles.

As Fabrizio Pilotti, Chief Information Officer at Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team, explains: “What happened in Formula One™ over the last 10 to 15 years is that the amount of data we’re processing has increased enormously. When you’re talking about petabytes of data, this is the moment where the relationship with Arm and the introduction of AI systems give us the cutting edge, in how much data we can process, and how quickly we can turn that into relevant information.”

From insight to action, the importance of data consistency across the team

At Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team, technology supports engineers in making decisions sooner and with greater confidence. When data behaves consistently across systems, teams spend less time validating inputs and more time interpreting results.

This is particularly important in environments like the CoreWeave wind tunnel where timely validation helps protect limited test allocations by identifying issues during a run rather than after it ends. Data from these sessions can then be compared with simulation and on-car data, helping engineers confirm that potential upgrades will perform as expected when deployed.

As milliseconds matter long before race day, performance is shaped in development, where learning speed determines how quickly updates reach the car. Combined with AI-driven analysis, this creates a development flywheel. Each iteration feeds the next, insights arrive sooner, and models improve faster, helping the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team bring better upgrades to the car, earlier.

Engineering speed for what comes next

As Formula One™ approaches its 2026 reset, the challenge for teams is adapting quickly enough to make the regulations an advantage. From simulation to wind tunnel, and from testing to trackside execution, Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team’s engineers can make vital decisions earlier and faster because the compute foundations are consistent.  Through the Arm partnership, that race is supported by a compute platform that is designed to keep pace as Formula One™ enters its next era.