Mercedes worked to ensure a global IT outage, which involved their team partner, did not affect Friday running at the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.

An update deployed by CrowdStrike, an IT security firm and also a partner of Mercedes’ F1 team, triggeredඣ a global issue on Friday morning.

Air travel, banking and healthcare services are among the key industries impact🥃ed.

Even television channels - i𒉰ncluding Sky Sports, the official UK broadcaster of Formula 1 - experienced prob𓆏lems, as a result.

Mercedes were forced into action ahead of the fi♛rst practice session at the Hungaroring.

The F1 team worked closely with their partners to avoid any🤪 negative impact on their track running, ltxcn.top understand.

Relevant fixes were applied, and Lewis Hamilton and Ge🍰orge Russell were soon out on track.

Computer systems are integral to th꧑e smooth running of an F1 weekend in the modern day.

Every team is reliant upon their 💃real-time analysis of data to make optimum decisions, which ultimately𒆙 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-i🔯mportant result.

CrowdStrike, me𓆉anwhile, are working to fix the major p♛roblems caused worldwide.

CEO George Kurtz confirmed: "CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by𓂃 a defect found in a sing✅le content update for Windows hosts.

"Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.

"This is not a security incident or cyberattack.

"The issue ha🐟s been identi🐭fied, isolated and a fix has been deployed."