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

The Alpine driver was been punished with five separate 10-place 🅠grid penalties.

Gasly h🅠ad exceeded his annual allocation of power 🧔unit components, resulting in the penalty for Silverstone.

He was due to start at the back of the starting grid for the race, with Sergio Perez to ☂start from the pitl꧙ane. 

But a last-gasp issue with Gasly's car meant he w𓆏ent into the pits, leaving just 1🥂8 cars on the starting grid. Gasly did not even get started, his race going from bad to worse.

Gasly's penalty was because he breached his limit of four by t🌊aking on a new Internal Combustion Engine (ICE), Turbocharger (TC), Motorꦡ Generator Unit-Heat (MGU-H) and Motor Generator Unit-Kinetic (MGU-K) for the British Grand Prix.

A 10-place grid penalty was imposed fo𝓰r each of those five components.

Gasly🦄’s huge penalty brings back memories of Jenson Button in Mexico n🤪ine years ago.

McLaren drive🐷r Button had a 70-place grid penalty imposed - the result of five separate penalties, all rela𝄹ting to his engine.

Separately, McLaren were hit with a combined 55-place grid penalty for꧑ their two drivers in Belgium in 2015.

Button was han🃏ded a 25-place drop for four separate engine rule-breaks. Teammate Fernando Alonso was demoted 30 places for a similar series of offences.

Gasly, who has signed a new deal to pledge his future to Alpi💞ne, has scored points at the past four g🃏rands prix.

But after incurring a 50-place penalty at the British Grand P൲rix, he was out with a suspected gear box issue as the starting grid was taking shape.