Formula 1: Red Bull form new health and performance partnership

The Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team have formed a partnership with Oura Rings to help team members reach optimal cognitive and physical performance during races.

Oura Rings, which recently announced partnerships with the NBA, WNBA, NASCAR, UFC, and the MLB’s Seattle Mariners, has announced a partnership with the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team to provide team members with rings to optimize their health and performance during races.

The rings provide actionable insights on sleep and its impact on overall health, as they track all stages of sleep and account for daily activity to provide practical steps for long-term improvement.

Oura is the Milton Keynes-based team’s first-ever “Official Health Technology” partner as they turn to the most accurate and credible health technology to elevate their performance via personalized Readiness, Activity, and Sleep insights and guidance to provide a holistic picture of the health of their team members.

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In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, this partnership and deployment of Oura’s technology is extra timely, given the fact that it can potentially detect early symptoms of COVID-19 in users.

How? The Oura Ring is one of very few mainstream consumer health wearables which measures body temperature directly from your skin rather than estimating it from the external environment. For more information, please visit http://ouraring.com/.

In addition to uncovering potential signs of illness, temperature is vital to accurate sleep analysis and improved athletic performance, which is naturally vital for members of any Formula 1 eam.

Oura, which was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Oulu, Finland, has offices in both Helsinki and San Francisco, California, and has raised over $47,000,000 in funding from Forerunner Ventures, MSD Capital, Gradient Ventures, and Square.

The company’s technology is used by top performers such as Jack Dorsey, Michael Dell, Arianna Huffington and Marc Benioff, and Red Bull are excited to introduce it as their “Official Health Technology” partner.

Here is what Oura Health CEO Harpreet Singh Rai had to say about this partnership with Red Bull in a press release.

"“Aston Martin Red Bull Racing is an ambitious team with a desire to continuously improve its skills as it chases race victories. We believe Oura can play an essential role in prioritizing the impact that sleep has on mental clarity, reaction time, and peak physical performance for the Red Bull team, so they don’t miss a beat of the Formula One season.”"

Here is what Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner had to add.

"“Oura Health is a perfect fit for Aston Martin Red Bull Racing. In the relentless pursuit of performance, Formula One tries to measure all that is measurable. Giving our people the ability to accurately track and analyze their health metrics feels like a natural evolution of what we do with the car.“This is an environment in which people put in a vast amount of effort across a demanding season and yet need to deliver peak performance all year round. We have always prioritized the wellbeing of our staff and, this year more than ever, that requires very careful thought.“We have a lot of races packed into an unusually intense schedule, with extra demands placed upon everybody because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing a straightforward ability to monitor our own health will undoubtedly generate greater personal insight and also improve performance.”"

With three races to go in the 2020 Formula 1 season, Red Bull have effectively clinched second place in the constructor standings behind Mercedes, while Max Verstappen is in a battle for second in the driver standings with Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas and Alexander Albon is in a six-way battle for fourth.