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CrowdStrike outage had ‘minimal impact’ on Mercedes’ practice programme

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In the round-up: Andrew Shovlin insists Mercedes suffered no major difficulties from the international CrowdStrike outage.

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CrowdStrike outage had ‘minimal impact’ on Mercedes

After an service outage for American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike led to severe disruption across the globe, including for Mercedes’ trackside F1 operations, the team’s trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin insisted that the impact on their practice programme was negligible.

“We’ve had great support from [CrowdStrike] and all our partners,” Shovlin said.

“There was a bit of work that we had to do. We’ve got a lot of computers around the garage and in pit walls and things here, and those all needed updating, but we’ve worked through that. The impact in FP1 was minimal, if not nil. So, as I said, it created a bit of work, but we’re back where we need to be now.”

Tsunoda hit by suspension fault

RB racing director Alan Permane says that Yuki Tsunoda suffered a suspension problem which compromised his running in yesterday’s second practice session, even though he completed 13 laps.

“Unfortunately, Yuki’s car had a problem with the front suspension setup in second practice,” Permane explained.

“We figured out what the problem was, but we couldn’t fix it in time, so he really didn’t have any sort of FP2 this afternoon.”

Injured Rossi ruled out of Toronto weekend

Alexander Rossi will take no further part in this weekend’s IndyCar race at Toronto after breaking his right thumb in a crash during practice. McLaren is yet to announce who will replace him in their number seven car.

Vergne quickest in London Eprix practice

Jean-Eric Vergne set the fastest time in the opening practice session for the Formula E season-ending London EPrix, with Mitch Evans the fastest of the championship contenders.

The DS Penske driver set the pace ahead of today’s first of two races to conclude the 2024 championship, with Evans in fourth, half a tenth behind Vergne. Evans’ Jaguar team mate and championship leader Nick Cassidy was 11th-quickest, while Pascal Wehrlein, tied on points with Evans heading into the final weekend, was 13th.

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Comment of the day

After a crash for Charles Leclerc in Friday practice at the Hungaroring, Nick T. is not jumping on the Ferrari driver for his disappointing run of results since his Monaco win…

Hasn’t Leclerc still out-qualified Carlos Sainz Jnr across the season and beat him on race day as often as not? It just seems people expect so much more out of Leclerc than Sainz despite the fact that we know that even a nine-tenths driver shouldn’t be crushing an 8/10 driver. I think a few weekends in which he finished near last due to issues and situations that were not of his making, like Canada and Silverstone, he looks like he’s done much worse than he has.

I say this as someone who never thought Leclerc or Sainz were anything more than around Jenson Button or Sebastian Vettel-level stars at best. So, I have no vested interest in either.
Nick T.

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  1. *Mercedes’ sponsor Crowdstrike.

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