Mercedes have worked to ensure an IT outage involving their partner CrowdStrike did not impact their running in Hungary.
Mercedes worked to ensure a global IT outage, which involved their team partner, did not affect Friday running at theAn update deployed by CrowdStrike, an IT security firm and also a partner of Mercedes ’ F1 team, triggered a global issue on Friday morning.Even television channels - including Sky Sports, the official UK broadcaster of Formula 1 - experienced problems, as a result.The F1 team worked closely with their partners to avoid any negative impact on their track running, Crash.
Every team is reliant upon their real-time analysis of data to make optimum decisions, which ultimately lead to the result in Sunday’s grand prix. Communication, and the exchange of data, between Hungary and every F1 team’s headquarters - including for sim drivers to improve performance for the next day’s running - can make a critical difference to the all-important result.CEO George Kurtz confirmed:"CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts."The issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed.
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