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Even the Mercedes F1 team had CrowdStrike problems today.

A bad time to get hit with the Blue Screen of Death is probably when you’re preparing for a practice session ahead of the Hungarian GP, especially when the problem has been caused by a team sponsor. But the Mercedes F1 team’s trackside engineering director, Andrew Shovlin, told reporters they were back up after updating affected PCs.

The impact in FP1 was minimal, if not nil. So, it created a bit of work, but we’re back where we need to be now.

 A Mercedes team member, whose shirt bears the logo of team sponsor Crowdstrike, looks on as Windows error screens are seen on their pitwall prior to practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary
Windows error screens on the Mercedes pitwall prior to practice ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Hungary.
Photo by Bryn Lennon - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images
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