{"id":27478,"date":"2025-11-20T19:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/kurz-acquires-minority-stake-in-mercedes-f1-team\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:37:37","slug":"kurz-acquires-minority-stake-in-mercedes-f1-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/kurz-acquires-minority-stake-in-mercedes-f1-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurz acquires minority stake in Mercedes F1 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz has purchased a minority stake in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team and has been appointed technology advisor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">Kurz bought a 15% minority stake in the ownership controlled by Toto Wolff, who owns a third of the team alongside Mercedes-Benz and INEOS. This buy-in does not affect the team&#8217;s governance, and Wolf will continue in his existing executive role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">&#8220;Winning the race and winning in cybersecurity requires speed, precision, and innovation. Milliseconds matter. Execution matters. Data wins,&#8221; Kurtz said. &#8220;Technology is reshaping competitive advantage and human performance everywhere, including in motorsports, and we&#8217;re excited to help ensure teams move forward.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">Kurz\u2019s ownership continues a relationship that began when CrowdStrike first joined the team as a technology partner in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">&#8220;The breadth of George&#8217;s career is exceptional. He is a racer, a loyal sports ambassador for Mercedes-AMG and an extraordinary entrepreneur,&#8221; Wolff said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">\u201cHe understands both the demands of racing and the realities of building and scaling a technology business. That combination provides concrete insights that are increasingly relevant to the future of F1.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">In addition to his entrepreneurial and security expertise, Kurz has built a racing resume that includes wins and championships in several series, primarily in the LMP2 and GT classes.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz has purchased a minority stake in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team and has been appointed technology advisor. Kurz bought a 15% minority stake in the ownership controlled by Toto Wolff, who owns a third of the team alongside Mercedes-Benz and INEOS. This buy-in does not affect the team&#8217;s governance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,18,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-27478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-formula","9":"tag-formula-racing","10":"tag-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}