In the round-up: Andrew Shovlin insists Mercedes suffered no major difficulties from the international CrowdStrike outage.
In brief
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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Has Formula E's electric racing lived up to the hype? (BBC)
'The BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have all taken turns at hosting the series on terrestrial television. In December 2023, Formula E announced a deal with TNT Sports in the search for a permanent residence, placing season 10 behind the paywall in the UK. However, the London finale will be free-to-air in the UK on Quest. Not increasing the audience is the ''biggest problem'' the sport has, suggests McLaren Racing chief executive Zak Brown.'
The Euroformula Open switches to Dallara 324 chassis and Toyota engines (EuroFormula Open)
'The Euroformula Open will be racing with the new Dallara 324 and the Toyota GR TGE33 engine, which together with the Pirelli tyres, will constitute a very exciting racing package at a competitive budget. The Dallara 324 is the natural heir to the 320 currently in use in the Euroformula Open and includes aero and safety developments, which are expected to represent on average a tw0-second per lap advantage. The car’s weight has increased only marginally, up to 509 kg (including three litres of liquids), ensuring that the racing characteristics and drivability which have made the 320 the most acclaimed car in its category, remain unchanged.'
The Garage Episode 2: Chassis (RB via YouTube)
'RB chief engineer of car engineering, Jonathan Eddolls, talks through how the team manages its various chassis through the season.'
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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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*Mercedes’ sponsor Crowdstrike.