Red Bull Advanced Technologies
The Game Changing Oracle Red Bull Racing RBS#01 Electric Scooter
March 26, 2024
NOW AVAILABLE
After two years of meticulous design and development, the gamechanging Oracle Red Bull Racing RBS#01 electric scooter is now available and ready to ship — the team’s first venture into the consumer product sector.
Available now in the US, the RBS#01 is a unique opportunity for the public to experience the engineering brilliance of F1 World Champions.
“The RBS#01 marks the launch of Oracle Red Bull Racing’s first consumer product,” said Rob Gray, Technical Director of Red Bull Advanced Technologies. “Our team of engineers have developed a trailblazing e-Scooter that aims to disrupt the market. Winning performance is at the heart of everything we do and through rigorous testing and the development of a full carbon-fiber chassis, the RBS#01 delivers a truly unique riding experience.”
Designed over the course of 2,500 engineering hours, the RBS#01 is the ultimate electric scooter. It’s a ground-up, pure bespoke design done by the world’s best F1 engineers when left to their own devices. Nearly no component is shared with any other product on the market.
Taking cues from the F1 car, the design team built the chassis out of primarily carbon fiber and chose oversized karting tires as the rubber of choice. The carbon construction is light and has incredible performance characteristics, while the oversized tires keep the scooter stuck to the ground at high speed and reduce the need for suspension. Power is provided by a 750W electric drive unit that makes 80Nm of torque, all fueled by a 760Wh battery concealed inside the deck.
To prove the design concept, Oracle Red Bull Racing subjected the scooter to a series of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tests to ensure it would stand up to extreme use. In testing that included drop tests, jump tests, and free fall tests, the RBS#01 came away rated to withstand 2 tones of weight and 3G of load.
The RBS#01 is the only electric scooter on the market with a full carbon fiber chassis, redefining the definition of lightweight when comparative to size, coming in at a mere 50.7lbs and delivering a power-to-weight ratio a racing car would be proud of.
Cabling from the cockpit is channeled internally through the single-sided carbon steering column, giving the RBS#01 a sleek aesthetic.
ABOUT THE RBS#01
- Chassis: Carbon fiber construction
- Weight: 50.7 lbs
- Power: 750w
- Torque: 80Nm
- Range: approx. 40 miles
- Battery: 50.4V, 15Ah / 760Wh
- Charging Time: 5 hours
- Max Climb Angle: 25 degrees
- Brakes: 4-piston hydraulic disc brakes
- Wheels: One-piece high-grade alloy
- Tires: Semi-slick 11×5.5-6.0″
- IP Rating: IP65
- Warranty: Two years comprehensive
- Max Rider Weight: 265 lbs
The World’s First Floating Skatepark At Over 2,000ft In The Sky
April 13, 2023
Scottish BMX Pro, Kriss Kyle, quite literally takes his sport to new heights by performing tricks above the ground from one of the world’s largest hot air balloons
Limits do not exist for BMX rider and Red Bull athlete Kriss Kyle who has achieved something seemingly impossible. With a skatepark suspended from one of the world’s largest hot-air balloons, Kriss Kyle floats over 2,000 feet above ground, showcasing an array of tricks suspended in mid-air for his latest pioneering BMX film.
Kriss braves his fear of heights to ride against the clock, contending with the Formula One engineered BMX bowl swinging underneath him. In a masterpiece of precision, Kriss uses his unique riding style, quick thinking and years of experience to manoeuvre the compact space, with no room for error. Onlookers stood with jaws dropped at the spectacle of the world’s first floating skatepark, as Kriss performed a range of tricks, fighting against a heavily weighted parachute, and the bowl moving and bouncing like never before.
The engineering feat saw Kriss work with Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the technological arm of the Oracle Red Bull Racing Formula One Team to design and develop the one of a kind carbon fiber BMX bowl. Made from the same composite as a Formula One car, he utilised their world leading aerodynamics, simulation and modelling expertise. This was combined with the record breaking capabilities of Cameron Balloons, to design and create one of the world’s largest operating hot-air balloons alongside a group of Kriss’ close friends who have been riding BMX and building ramps together since they were kids, bringing together an unlikely and multi faceted project team capable of allowing Kriss to fulfil his vision of riding his bike in the sky.
It wasn’t just aeronautical engineering challenges which made this project difficult to get off the ground – very specific climatic conditions are needed to get a balloon six times larger than a standard hot air balloon and capable of carrying a 1.7-ton bmx bowl in the sky. A rare combination of high atmospheric pressure, cold and dry conditions, along with surface wind speeds of less than 3 mph were needed. It took nearly three years of planning, waiting and weather-watching for Kriss to finally realise his ambitions of riding his BMX at over 2,000ft.
Watch his latest pioneering BMX film below with a full behind the scenes documentary available to watch at redbull.co.uk/dontlookdown.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies Announces The RB17
June 28, 2022
A NEW ERA OF PERFORMANCE CARS HAS ARRIVED
Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-performance engineering arm of Red Bull Racing Group, today announced details of its first hypercar project designed, developed, and manufactured entirely in-house. Created by Adrian Newey, Chief Technical Officer of Oracle Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the RB17 is a two-seat hypercar optimized for the ultimate on-track driving experience. Just 50 RB17s will be made at the Red Bull Technology Campus in Milton Keynes, with production scheduled to commence in 2025.
Christian Horner, CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, added: “The RB17 marks an important milestone in the evolution of Red Bull Advanced Technologies, now fully capable of creating and manufacturing a series production car at our Red Bull Technology Campus. Further, the RB17 marks the first time that a car wearing the Red Bull brand has been available to collectors.”
Adrian Newey commented: “The RB17 distills everything we know about creating championship-winning Formula One cars into a package that delivers extreme levels of performance in a two-seat track car. Driven by our passion for performance at every level, the RB17 pushes design and technical boundaries far beyond what has been previously available to enthusiasts and collectors.”
Powered by a hybrid engine developing over 1,100bhp, the RB17 takes its inspiration – and name – from the cars that Red Bull Racing has campaigned in the world’s most demanding and technically advanced motorsport series. Designed around a carbon-composite tub, the RB17 features the most advanced ground effect package available in a series production car. Full technical details for the RB17 will be released in due course. Expressions of interest in the RB17 can be made from today by following the link below:
Just 50 collectors set to become owners of the RB17. That ownership includes more than the car, bringing a close association with the Red Bull Racing team through access to simulators, vehicle program development and on-track training and experiences. The RB17 will be supported directly by the factory, with servicing and maintenance support tailored to each owner and their usage profile for the car.
Since its
foundation in 2005, Red Bull Racing has progressively expanded its operations
and capabilities, now located on a 290-acre campus in Milton Keynes. Red Bull
Advanced Technologies was created in 2014 and brings its exceptional
engineering, design, technology, simulation, and production capabilities to a
hugely diverse set of industries. The creation of the RB17 will both secure
existing jobs and create over 100 new positions in Milton Keynes, in addition
to the economic benefits across project partners and suppliers.
Meet The Team
February 24, 2022
Meet the minds behind Red Bull Advanced Technologies
CHRISTIAN HORNER, CEO
The CEO of Red Bull Advanced Technologies began his motorsport career behind the wheel, working his way up to Formula 3000 before swapping the cockpit for a different driving seat – as the boss of his own team, Arden International. After guiding Arden to three team titles, Christian was brought in to lead the new Red Bull Racing Team following the Austrian drinks company’s decision to enter Formula 1 in 2005. Christian went on to take the team to four consecutive double world championship titles before creating Red Bull Advanced Technologies in 2014.
ROB GRAY, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Rob’s path to leading the team at Red Bull Advanced Technologies began trackside with the Jaguar Racing Formula 1 team in 2002. He joined Jaguar as a Structures Analyst before quickly stepping up to the role of Project Engineer following the team’s acquisition by Red Bull in 2005. As the Red Bull Racing team grew, Rob took on more responsibility, becoming Development Group Leader and Head of Drivetrain Engineering before rising to the position of Head of R&D Projects in 2009. After four years, Rob was appointed Deputy Chief Designer and a year later took up the post of Chief Designer, a task he fulfilled for six years. At the end of 2020, Rob moved across to Red Bull Advanced Technologies to run the division and oversee all of its current projects.
ANDY DAMERUM, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
Andy joined the Red Bull Technology family in 2005, first as a Performance Engineer with Red Bull Racing, a role that saw him work closely with the team’s drivers and engineers to turn feedback into real performance gains across the course of Grand Prix weekends. Throughout his time trackside Andy enjoyed major success with the team winning four consecutive double World Championships whilst Andy was also responsible for key factory-based work managing driver development and the activities within the team’s simulator. After 10 years trackside, Andy moved across to Red Bull Advanced Technologies to take on a new challenge and is now Commercial Development Officer of the division.
OLIVER HUGHES, CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
Oliver is responsible for bringing the high-tech solutions developed by Red Bull Advanced Technologies and its forward thinking partners to market and telling the story behind the cutting edge engineering that marks RBAT as a leader in its field. Oliver’s career started in 2006 with connectivity company Three before he moved to the world of video games in 2009 with digital interactive entertainment company Electronic Arts. After becoming Senior Director and Head of International Marketing, Oliver sought a new challenge and joined Red Bull in 2017.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies Takes To The Seas With Alinghi Red Bull Racing
January 31, 2022
Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-performance vehicle engineering division of Red Bull Racing, will support the newly formed Alinghi Red Bull Racing America’s Cup team with its engineering and design expertise derived from competing in Formula 1, the world’s fastest development cycle.
Red Bull announced a new partnership with double America’s Cup winners Alinghi in December last year to form Alinghi Red Bull Racing and challenge for sailing’s biggest prize by taking Formula 1 know-how and expertise from the circuit to the sea.
Located at the Red Bull Technology
Campus in Milton Keynes, UK, engineers and designers at Red Bull Advanced
Technologies will work together with Switzerland-based Alinghi Red Bull Racing
on specific areas where it’s believed F1 technology can add performance to the
AC75 Racing Yacht. In particular aerodynamics, simulation, composites and
systems design appear to have many parallels between the two sports and thus
offer opportunities to extract every ounce of performance possible from the
yacht.
Rob Gray, Technical Director, Red
Bull Advanced Technologies, commented: “We are delighted to work
together with Alinghi and their talented group of engineers to help develop the
AC75 Racing Yacht by taking inspiration from the same tools, techniques and
methods used in Formula 1 and applying these to the biggest competition in
international sailing. This new adventure will see the two worlds of
high-performance marine and Formula 1 engineering come together and with
Alinghi, we’re hugely excited to see what we can collectively achieve as a
result.”
Silvio Arrivabene, Co-General Manager
of Design and Construction, Alinghi Red Bull Racing, added: “Traditionally
a design competition arguably even more than a sporting one, the America’s Cup
has in recent times looked at the F1 teams as the expression of the level to
aspire to. To now have the opportunity to strengthen our design process with
specialties brought in from the F1 winning experience is a treat and a
privilege. The team values and spirit we naturally share with the Red Bull
family have created an exciting working environment that we look forward to
exploiting together with Red Bull Advanced Technologies.”
In conjunction with the America’s Cup, Alinghi Red Bull Racing will also field teams in the debut of the Women’s America’s Cup Regatta, as well as in the return of the Youth America’s Cup. Follow the link to visit their website:
Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Meet The AMR Pro - Aston Martin Valkyrie's Leaner And Meaner Track-Only Twin
June 28, 2021
“The AMR Pro is effectively an Aston Martin Valkyrie on steroids.” Adrian Newey
First came the Aston Martin Valkyrie – Aston Martin’s revolutionary road-going hypercar designed together with Red Bull Racing Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, and the Team’s external high-performance vehicle solutions arm, Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT).
Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, and the Team’s external high-performance vehicle solutions arm, Red Bull Advanced Technologies (RBAT).
And then came along the AMR Pro, Aston Martin Valkyrie’s no holds barred track-only twin. Born from an initial design concept between Adrian, RBAT, Aston Martin and engineering firm Multimatic that was intended to contest the Le Mans 24 Hours, the AMR Pro is an evolution not meant for competition, but made for ultimate power and performance.
Bound by no regulations, the AMR Pro was developed with no limits. The outcome? A leaner, meaner, monster of a machine that sits lower, lighter and wider on the race track, approaching the performance of modern day Formula One machinery.
It will be tremendously exciting to see the car hit the track and show its true potential.
Adrian Newey
Adrian Newey, Red Bull Racing Chief Technical Officer, commented: “Once the Aston Martin Valkyrie was born, we discussed adapting it into a race car to contend for overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours. There were several areas for consideration such as repositioning the engine and gearbox, as well as lengthening the wheelbase and optimizing the aerodynamics. The project was hugely enjoyable and quite far advanced before sadly the program was curtailed, but the mechanical design of the car lives on as the AMR Pro. Significantly modified from the road going version, the AMR Pro is effectively an Aston Martin Valkyrie on steroids. Its performance output is at a very high level, much higher than any other previous track-only car and indeed well in excess of a top class LMP car of today. It will be tremendously exciting to see the car hit the track and show its true potential.”
Adrian and the Red Bull Advanced Technologies Team push the boundaries with Aston Martin and take Formula One standards of engineering excellence to the automotive industry.
Christian Horner
Christian Horner, CEO of Red Bull Racing & Red Bull Advanced Technologies, added: “The Aston Martin Valkyrie is a sight to behold and from start to finish it has been incredible to witness Adrian and the Red Bull Advanced Technologies Team push the boundaries with Aston Martin and take Formula One standards of engineering excellence to the automotive industry. In the AMR Pro, we can see a further evolution of the work that was carried out on Aston Martin Valkyrie for the initial Le Mans 24 Hours entry, and just what is possible technically when you’re not playing by any rules.”
Aston Martin Valkyrie
Building The Sustainable Future Of Endurance Racing
January 25, 2021
Red Bull Advanced Technologies to design concept Hydrogen Class chassis for Le Mans 2024 in partnership with ORECA.
Following confirmation from the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Red Bull Advanced Technologies is pleased to announce that it is to collaborate on the design of the chassis concept for the next generation of hydrogen-fuelled cars planned for the 2024 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s most famous endurance race.
The new chassis will be designed in partnership with French racing team and car constructor ORECA, a long-established force in the world of endurance racing.
The collaborative winning bid will see the French company draw on its design and production skills as well as its endurance racing knowledge and experience. In parallel, Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-tech external solution division of Red Bull Technology, will bring its Formula 1 expertise in aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics, simulation technology and energy recovery optimisation to a project firmly focused on the sustainable future of endurance racing.
The initial task for the partners will be to undertake and provide a detailed feasibility study for the vehicle concept. As part of that initial phase of development, Red Bull Advanced Technologies and ORECA will be joined by Plastic Omnium, exclusive supplier of the hydrogen fuel tanks set for use in the racing prototypes that will take to some of the world’s most famous tracks in 2024.
Red Bull Advanced Technologies CEO Christian Horner said: “I am delighted that Red Bull Advanced Technologies have been chosen by the ACO along with our partners ORECA to develop the concept of a hydrogen powered endurance racing car for Le Mans. Red Bull Advanced Technologies are well equipped to take on the challenge set by the ACO having access to many of the tools used to design and develop the Red Bull Racing F1 car, along with significant experience on other cutting edge vehicle programs. The Hydrogen Class at Le Mans offers an exciting glimpse into the future of sustainable motorsport and promises both to advance the use of hydrogen in transportation, and also deliver exciting racing.”
Hugues de Chaunac, président du Groupe ORECA added: “We are proud that the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has chosen us to work alongside Red Bull Advanced Technologies on this ambitious, forward-looking project. And we are excited to be working with the other project partners, among them Plastic Omnium and Green GT. Collaboration is vital if we are to succeed in introducing a hydrogen class at the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans. ORECA enjoys challenges and pioneering change and we can fully express our talents in such an engrossing enterprise. With the LMH and LMDh classes, endurance racing is entering a fascinating new era. From a technical and sporting point of view it will have us on the edge of our seats.”
Commenting on the success of the bid by Red Bull Advanced Technologies and ORECA, Pierre Fillon, president of the Automobile Club de l’Ouest said: “This exciting announcement confirms the appeal of Mission H24 and offers a promising future for zero-carbon motor racing and hydrogen prototypes. Thanks to ORECA, a mainstay of the 24 Hours of Le Mans for many years, and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, a successful motorsport business, the ACO will benefit from extensive endurance racing experience combined with cutting-edge technology to guarantee outstanding performance in its hydrogen class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024. This partnership confirms that the ACO has made the right decisions for the future of motorsport and underscores our ambition for zero-carbon racing for future generations. We’re delighted to welcome ORECA and Red Bull Advanced Technologies alongside Plastic Omnium, producer of the hydrogen class fuel tank. Having these top-flight automotive firms on board is likely to draw even more interest from car manufacturers, especially those who regularly contribute to our hydrogen working group. We are living in difficult times but the ACO is resolutely pursuing its route towards zero-carbon racing and mobility.”
ACO H2 Le Mans
LEADING THE WAY IN PERFORMANCE VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY
November 30, 2020
Red Bull Advanced Technologies: We envision, conceptualise, create and deliver effective solutions.
Increasing The Pace Of Innovation
October 6, 2020
Red Bull Advanced Technologies and BMC prepare to revolutionise cycling performance.
After almost two years of intense research and development, Red Bull Advanced Technologies and innovative Swiss bike brand BMC have moved into the prototyping phase of their technology partnership.
The technical partnership agreement was first signed in 2018, when Red Bull Advanced Technologies, the high-tech performance vehicle solution division of Red Bull Technology, brought its Formula One expertise to bear on BMC’s quest to innovate on the entire cycling experience.
Utilising its advanced simulation and modelling capability Red Bull Advanced Technologies’ Vehicle Science team developed tools to provide detailed simulations of bike behavior based on data from CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) models.
BMC is working with Olympic and World Champion, Fabian Cancellara, to validate and evaluate some of the very first hardware developments enabled from the partnership.
Christian Horner, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing Team Principal, said: “It’s been utterly fascinating to see what Formula 1 development techniques can bring to the field of bike design. Together, Red Bull Advanced Technologies and BMC have developed some hugely innovative concepts and now it’s time to step up the pace of our collaboration and take those enormously exciting ideas to the next level in pursuit of the next generation of performance cycling.”
David Zurcher, CEO of BMC, said “We couldn’t be more excited about the progress we’re now seeing, after years of closed-door research. The ideas we’re working on truly have the capacity to significantly improve the entire experience of performance cycling. There’s still work to do, but we’re incredibly energised and motivated by what we’re already seeing. Working alongside the Red Bull Advanced Technology team has been simply phenomenal.”
This ‘transition-to-real-world’ moment is being celebrated with a short teaser video.
General BMC Switzerland