Overview
- The FIA announced the partnership on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, and will run its computational fluid dynamics and virtual windtunnel workloads on Amazon Web Services high-performance computing to speed simulations and cut costs.
- FIA engineers plan to develop AI surrogate models trained on past CFD results to predict aerodynamic outcomes in seconds or minutes instead of hours, allowing many more rule and shape variations to be tested quickly.
- The collaboration includes bespoke, private large-language models and secure cloud deployments to help stress-test the rulebook and to check legality while keeping confidential team data inside FIA-controlled systems.
- The FIA will expand a digital licensing platform first trialled in Canada and Sri Lanka so national sporting authorities can manage licences, renewals and event administration through a single online system.
- The agreement stops short of using generative AI to design cars now, emphasizes human-led engineering, and builds on AWS’s existing Formula 1 work and the sport’s shift toward GPU‑optimised simulation and AI-friendly computing hardware.