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Technical Partner

IDEC SPORT Racing

LMP2

The IDEC SPORT Racing team, founded in 2015 by Patrice Lafargue, has primarily excelled in the LMP2 category. The team claimed a European championship title in 2019, a podium finish at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2024. AVL RACETECH supports IDEC SPORT Racing with expertise in race and performance engineering, as well as programming capabilities for developing and utilizing the complete vehicle dynamics simulation toolchain. The team will also receive additional expertise in race engineering on site for selected races.

Brand ambassador

Ferdinand Habsburg

FIA WEC – Hypercar class, ELMS – LMP2 class

Born in 1997, Ferdinand was the first participant in our young driver program in 2015. The Austrian has won a multitude of victories and pole positions in the Euroformula Open, FIA Formula 3 and in the LMP2 class (Le Mans Prototype) at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, before making his DTM debut in 2019. After a second season in the renowned sprint series, he successfully focused on endurance racing in 2021: He was champion in the Asian Le Mans Series, won his class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and crowned his outstanding LMP2 season with the title of FIA World Champion. The current highlight of his career is his appointment as a factory driver for the Alpine Elf Endurance Team in the World Endurance Championship 2024.

Technical partner

Penske AUTOSPORT

PENSKE AUTOSPORT, the Race Team operators for the DS AUTOMOBILES Formula E World Championship entry, is an American racing team founded in 2007 by Jay Penske. After many successful years competing in IndyCar (2007-2014), the team embraced the shift to electric mobility and became one of the founding teams of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.

In 2025 AVL RACETECH and PENSKE AUTOSPORT expanded their successful collaboration, now co‑developing an optimized energy management system based on a highly accurate virtual model of the current Formula E car built on the AVL VSM™ RACE simulation software already used by the team for some time to prepare for races, optimize lap times and energy management.

Official supplier

MissionH24

In January 2026 AVL RACETECH has joined MissionH24, a program initiated by H24Project and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) dedicated to the development of hydrogen-based, zero-emission powertrain concepts for endurance racing.

This partnership aims to strengthen hydrogen performance under real racing conditions and contribute to a future zero‑CO2 category at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Over the next three years, the collaboration will expand from virtual development into full vehicle testing.

Official supplier

RFK Racing TeK ALLIANCE

In 2026 AVL RACETECH has joined the RFK TeK Alliance which brings together industry leading companies to support innovation throughout the Nascar Team Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing. The partnership builds on a successful technical collaboration already established between the two organizations.

Through this alliance AVL RACETECH will continue supporting RFK Racing with additional advanced simulation solutions and technical expertise, helping optimize vehicle performance and decision making across race weekends.

Dynamic Vehicle Simulation Partner

Ed Carpenter Racing (ECR)

Based in Indianapolis, ECR first entered the NTT INDYCAR SERIES in 2012 and made an immediate impact by winning the season finale in its debut year. Since then, the team has secured multiple race victories and established itself as a competitive presence in the series. At beginning of 2026 AVL RACETECH and the ECR (Ed Carpenter Racing) INDYCAR Team have entered into an official technical partnership. Building on a collaboration that began in 2021, the alliance now moves into a new phase with an expanded scope. AVL RACETECH will be the Official Dynamic Vehicle Simulation Partner of the Team.

The partnership strengthens ECR’s engineering capabilities through the increased use of AVL’s advanced vehicle dynamics simulation technologies within the highly competitive NTT INDYCAR SERIES.

Dynamic Vehicle Simulation Partner

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL)

Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL) is one of the most established organizations in American open-wheel competition, having recorded 30 INDYCAR victories, 38 pole positions, 112 podium finishes, and 1992 series championship.

The partnership between AVL RACETECH and RLL focuses on advanced vehicle dynamics simulation and performance analysis. AVL RACETECH provides the team with a fully dynamic development environment through its AVL VSM™ RACE platform, enabling virtual evaluation of setup configurations and data-driven performance optimization.

Beyond delivering software, AVL supports RLL with dedicated engineering expertise to ensure efficient implementation within the team’s existing development workflow.

Brand ambassador

Tatiana Calderón

IMSA/GTD class

Tatiana (born 1993) decided at just nine years of age that she wanted to be a professional racing driver. Having cut her teeth in karting, the Columbian has achieved her big goal in various racing series, including Super Formula Japan, FIA Formula 3, FIA Formula 2, the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), and the FIA World Endurance Championship. In 2022, she lined up in the NTT INDYCAR Series. In 2024 Tatiana is joining the IMSA SportsCar Championship in a GTD of Gradient Racing, beside American female racing legend Katherine Legge. Tatiana hopes her passion will inspire other young girls, in particular. She is passionate about making motorsport a more diverse and integrative environment on all levels.

Brand ambassador

Aliyyah Koloc

On & Off-Road

Aliyyah´s love of motorsport was handed down to her since she was born in Dubai in 2004. Her father, two-time European truck racing champion Martin Koloc. At the age of just 16, Aliyyah became the youngest ever driver winning a truck race. In 2024 at the 46th edition of the Dakar Rally, Aliyyah impressively proved that, despite her young age, she is already one of the world’s best offroad drivers. The 19-year-old Buggyra ZM Racing driver took part in the legendary competition for the second time and, for the first time, contested in the top category, the Ultimate Elite, finishing 25th overall. This season she will hit the tracks in the desert again in the W2RC Middle East Baja races as well as competing on asphalt in the 24h Series.

Official Supplier

RAVENOL

RAVENOL becomes an official supplier of AVL RACETECH. This partnership focuses on advanced hydrogen combustion technology for racing applications.

The heart of this collaboration is AVL RACETECH’s hydrogen combustion engine for motorsport and RAVENOL’s cutting-edge products designed to meet the extreme demands of high-performance engines.

AVL RACETECH is continuously refining their H2 RACE ICE Engine for future applications in motorsport. RAVENOL`s Racing ECO lubricating oils based on renewable raw materials help reduce CO2 emissions, as they offer a more sustainable alternative to conventional oils and improve the carbon footprint.

Together, we will bring more innovative and sustainable solutions to the track.

Brand ambassador

Finn Gehrsitz

FIA WEC/LMGT3 CLASS

Finn (born 2004) a multiple karting champion took his first steps in GT4 racing, where he immediately impressed and claimed class victories. In 2021, Finn became the youngest driver ever to make his debut in an Le Mans Prototpye (LMP3) in the Michelin Le Mans Cup. Currently he drives in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Lexus and Akkodis ASP Team in the LMGT3 class.

Partner

More than Equal

More than Equal, a data-led organization dedicated to finding and developing female driving talent, was co-founded by 13-time Formula 1 Grand Prix winner David Coulthard. The More than Equal Driver Development Programme, led by a team of experts and coaches with experience developing both Olympic athletes and F1 World Champions, is supporting five high-potential female drivers from around the world, all aged 13 and 14.

Through this partnership, we aim to accelerate development by providing these young drivers with exclusive access to a guided, intensive program using best-in-class AVL driving simulators at our headquarters in Austria. Additionally, they will participate in engineering workshops designed to enhance their understanding of data and its use in collaboration with race engineers.

Supporting diversity on and off the racetrack and helping young talent enter the industry is in our DNA.

Technical partner

INVICTA Racing

FIA Formula 2

INVICTA Racing has been relying on the vehicle dynamics simulations from Graz since 2016. AVL RACETECH became the team’s official technical partner in 2022. The long-standing, successful collaboration in the FIA Formula 2 Championship reached a new level in 2024. For the first time, in addition to using our simulation software, the British F2 team also used AVL RACETECH’s multifunctional race testbed to characterize and optimize the gearbox and differential. The effort was rewarded: Invicta Racing and Gabriel Bortoleto won the team and driver championships in FIA F2 in 2024.

Technical partner

AIX Racing

Formula 2 and 3

AVL RACETECH continues to expand its presence in international formula racing. As of this season, AIX Racing is an official technical partner of AVL RACETECH not only in Formula 3 but also in Formula 2, further expanding the collaboration. The successful German racing team is represented from Formula 4 to FIA Formula 2 and uses AVL VSM™ RACE, our sophisticated simulation software toolchain. AVL VSM™ RACE links real data and virtual simulations and enables all the details of the setup parameters to be identified and adjusted accordingly.

Technical partner

Inter Europol Competition

IMSA & ELMS – LMP2 class

Founded in 2010 by Kuba and Wojtek Śmiechowski, the team entered endurance racing in 2016 with prototype cars and was able to claim early success. In 2019, Inter Europol Competition extended its involvement to cover the LMP2 (Le Mans Prototype 2) class, competing there for the first time in the Le Mans 24-hour race. The team debuted in the 2021 World Endurance Championship (WEC) – the first Polish team in the history of the WEC. Since 2022 AVL RACETECH is the official technical partner of Inter Europol Competition and supports the team, among other activities, in its preparation for the 24 Hours of Le Mans with it`s Simulation software VSM™ RACE and race engineering services. 2023 marked the most successful season of the team with winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most prestigious event in endurance racing and claiming the 2nd place overall in the World Endurance Championship WEC.

STRATEGIC PARTNER

etecmo®

The Spanish software company etecmo® has its roots in motorsport and is specializes in professional driving simulation. etecmo® is best known for its simulation suite with the tools Universo™ and Interact™ . At the heart of the collaboration is the use of Universo™ and Interact™ in combination with AVL RACETECH´s Vehicle Simulation Software AVL VSM™ RACE – combining the advantages of both to extract the ultimate performance. Universo™, etecmo®’s simulation rendering engine, uses ray tracing technology. This means that the renderings are based on the physical properties of light and therefore produce accurate reflections, refractions, shadows, and indirect lighting, providing an ultra high fidelity visual representation of the track and its environment.AVL VSM™ RACE, which can be used to prepare races and optimize lap times locally or in the cloud, incorporates comprehensive and detailed models of the whole vehicle and environment. Up to 100,000 laps can be simulated within a very short time, in order to identify the optimal set-up for a race car. AVL VSM™ RACE incorporates comprehensive models of the whole car.The partnership provides AVL RACETECH and etecmo® with the necessary power to be leaders in the segment of DiL (Driver in the Loop) visualization and simulation for engineering tasks. The partnership between AVL RACETECH and etecmo® aims to define a new quality of simulation in motorsport.