Microsoft’s failure also affects F1. How CrowdStrike’s downfall could knock out the entire Mercedes team

Airports, banks, supermarkets… and also Formula 1. CrowdStrike’s downfall is paralyzing half the worldand the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix could be seriously affected. In particular, one team, Mercedes, which has a close collaboration with the aforementioned CrowdStrike.

The cybersecurity company has suddenly updated its software without realizing that it was incompatible with Microsoft, which is causing chaos in all the large companies that use Windows. Among them, Mercedes F1, who do not know if they will be able to race just a few hours before free practice in Hungary, no way.

Mercedes doesn’t even know if it will be able to start the car due to the CrowdStrike crash

CrowdStrike’s collapse has also raised alarm to the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix. Starting with the organisation itself, which does not know whether it will be able to have all the electronic paraphernalia necessary to launch the Grand Prix ready. But there is one team in particular that is very affected.

Is about Mercedes, which sports CrowdStrike advertising in the halo and has been linked to the cybersecurity company for several seasons. A few hours before free practice is supposed to start, Mercedes does not even know if they will be able to participate in it, and under what conditions they will do so if they do.

And right now everything is chaos. It seems that They are having difficulty even starting the car.and the electronic component in Formula 1 cars is crucial. But even if they can go out on track, it seems that they will have a hard time collecting data, having telemetry or simply following their drivers.

Mercedes is not the only team that could presumably suffer from these problems. Also Alpine works with Microsoftwhich is the main victim of the CrowdStrike failure. The French brand has Microsoft as one of its main sponsors, and could have problems similar to those of Mercedes.

What is clear is that advertising on the rear wing of the Mercedes is not a good idea. Because to this failure of CrowdStrike we must add how just a few months ago another sponsor of the Mercedes rear spoiler, FTX cryptocurrencycollapsed with a judicial scandal that ended with years in prison for fraud.

we hope that CrowdStrike may soon find a solution that will take away Mercedes’ fear and all of Formula 1.