Pierre Gasly was hit with a staggering 50-place grid pe꧑nalty for the F1 British Grand Prix.

The Alpine driver was been punished with five separat🎃e 10-place grid penalties.

Gasly had exceeded his annual allocation of power unit components, resulting in the penalty for Silver♔stone.

He was due to star🉐t at the back of the starting grid for the race, with Sergio Perez to start from the pitlane. 

But a last-gasp issue with Gasly's car meant ﷽he went into the pits, leaving just 18 cars on the starting grid. Gasly did no🌳t even get started, his race going from bad to worse.

Gasly's penalty was because he breached his limit of four by ta💮king on a new Internal Combustion Engine (ICE), Turbocharger (TC), Motor Generator Unit-Heat (MGU-H) and Motor Generator Unit-Kinetic (MGU-K) for the British Grand Prix.

A 10-place grid penalty was imposed for each of those five cཧomponents.

Gasly’s huge penalty brinꦺgs back memo❀ries of Jenson Button in Mexico nine years ago.

McLaren driver Button had a 70-place grid penalty imposed - the result of five separate penalties, all relating to hi🐎s engine.

Separately, McLaren were hit with a combine⭕d 55-place grid penalty for their two drivers in Belgium in 2015.

Button was handed🍸 a 25-place drop for four separate engine rule-breaks. Teammate Fernando Al𒀰onso was demoted 30 places for a similar series of offences.

Gasly, who has signed a new deal to pledge hꦺis future to Alpine, has scored points at the past four grands prix.

But after incurring a 5💜0-place penalty 🦄at the British Grand Prix, he was out with a suspected gear box issue as the starting grid was taking shape.