Last Friday’s CrowdStrike issue led to all manner of outages across the ol’ internet. One of the most amusing has to be the failure of the Mercedes F1 team’s computers, given that Mercedes is sponsored by, you guessed it, CrowdStrike.
All eyes were on the Mercedes pit wall at the Hungaroring as the monitors for the team’s trackside computers displayed a ‘blue screen of death,’ the telltale sign of a critical Windows error.
[Photo credit: @wtf1official]
“:(” indeed. At least the Mercedes IT team got a $10 gift card out of the whole thing. Maybe.
