Infosys and the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship announced on March 20, 2026, the launch of an AI-powered Race Centre designed to give fans access to live race data and interactive content through a single digital platform. The move represents a step forward in how motorsport series use technology to deepen fan engagement, as competition for digitally native audiences intensifies across global sports.
The Race Centre is built on Infosys Topaz, the company's applied AI and data services platform, and marks Infosys's second year as Formula E's Official Digital Innovation Partner. In its first year, the partnership focused on data-led insights. This season, the collaboration shifts toward immersive fan engagement, consolidating multiple functions — AI-generated race commentary, podium predictions, pit stop monitoring, driver tracking, weather updates, and race control feeds — into one unified platform.
At the core of the system is a generative AI commentary engine that produces real-time, context-aware race narration throughout each event. An agentic AI layer manages data orchestration, processing over 1.5 million data points per race and routing them into the Race Centre dashboard, which displays live driver positions and car movements through a 2D track visualisation.
Beyond passive viewing, the platform includes several interactive features. Fans can submit podium predictions during practice and qualifying sessions, and vote for the "PIF Driver of the Race" to encourage participation around live race outcomes. A PIT BOOST tracking tool allows users to monitor the mandatory fast-charging pit stops introduced in select races this season, showing how each stop affects driver positions and race momentum. A selected driver event tracker lets fans follow the timeline of key moments for any individual driver — including overtakes and ATTACK MODE deployments — at any point during the race.
Formula E Chief Executive Officer Jeff Dodds said the platform reflects the series' broader ambition to use technology as a driver of growth. "Formula E's vision is to lead the future of sustainable motorsport, and technology is the catalyst that continues to push our sport forward," he said. "The Race Centre helps fans feel closer to the race. Looking ahead, this platform sets the stage for a smarter, more connected future in which innovation and electric racing move forward together."
Infosys Global Chief Marketing Officer Sumit Virmani described the Race Centre as a practical demonstration of responsible AI applied to live sports. "With Infosys Topaz at the core of the new Race Centre, we are redefining the race-day experience with real-time, responsible AI insights that deliver seamless performance and engagement," he said. "Together with Formula E, we're building a futuristic blueprint of how AI can reimagine performance, storytelling, and experiences for millions of fans."
The platform is designed to stay active beyond individual race weekends, covering practice and qualifying sessions as well as the off-season period. This positions the Race Centre less as a broadcast supplement and more as a year-round digital destination for the sport's fanbase. Formula E has framed the tool as a key part of its strategy to attract younger, digitally native audiences and build long-term fan loyalty across international markets.
Formula E is the world's first all-electric FIA World Championship and has held net zero carbon certification since its inception. The series races on street circuits in major cities around the world and functions as a development platform for electric vehicle technology, with several leading automotive manufacturers fielding works teams. The championship is sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and has grown steadily since its inaugural season in 2014–15.
Infosys, listed on the NSE, BSE, and NYSE under the ticker INFY, employs over 330,000 people and serves clients in 63 countries. The company has positioned its Topaz platform as its primary offering for AI-driven enterprise services, spanning data analytics, generative AI applications, and cloud infrastructure. The Formula E partnership represents one of its more prominent consumer-facing deployments of the platform to date.