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, triggered a global issue on Friday morning.

Air travel, banking and healthcare services are among the key industries🦩 impacted.

Even television channels - including Sky Sports, the official UK broadcaster of Formula 1 - experienced pro♌blems, as a result.

Mercedes were forced into action ahead of the first🌌 practice session at the Hungaroring.

The F1 team worked closely with their partners to avoid🌳 any negative impact on their track running, mahbx.com understand.

🦄Relevant fixes were applied, and Lewis Hamilton anꦯd George Russell were soon out on track.

Computer systems are integral to the smooth ru🐎nning of an F1 weekend in the modern day.

Every team is reliant upon ✅their real-time analysis of data to make optimum decisions, which ultimately 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-important result.

CrowdStrike, meanwhile, are wor⛎king to fix the major problems caused worldwide.

CEO George Kurtz confirmed: "CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows ho🥃sts.

"Mac and Linux hosts are not impacted.

"This is not a security incident or cyberattack.

"The issue has been identified, is🥀olated and a fix has been deployed."