News Details

Gasly at risk of grid penalty following FP2 engine blaze

Pierre Gasly's fiery exit from FP2 on Friday has put the AlphaTauri driver at risk of a grid penalty for Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix. Gasly's afternoon session was cut short when the Frenchman's engine suddenly lost all its electrical power. As the AlphaTauri driver coasted to a halt, a fire erupted at the rear. Gasly quickly exited his car but the blaze continued unabated until the marshals reached the AlphaTauri and extinguished the flames. "Literally five seconds before I stopped I just lost everything," he said. "The steering, the electricity in the car. "We're still investigating what happened. Obviously, there was a lot of fire at the back of the car and things...
Full Story »
4y ago from F1i.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Russell rumoured to be at risk amid Mazepin reports

George Russell's race seat at Williams is reported to be in jeopardy amid...
4y ago from F1i.com

Gasly had little warning of problems before fire...

AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly says he had little warning that his car would...
4y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

Pierre Gasly Looking To Replace Esteban Ocon At Renault

Scuderia AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly is reportedly eyeing a move to...
4y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Bottas will avoid F1 grid penalty at Portuguese GP

Valtteri Bottas will avoid a grid penalty at this weekend’s Formula 1...
4y ago from Crash.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Palou returns to the top with Iowa Speedway victory

The second IndyCar race in as many days took place at Iowa Speedway on...
11h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

IndyCar Iowa – Race 2 Results

The second race of IndyCar’s double-header took place on Sunday...
11h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

A new week, a new striker

Morning. Starting a brand new week with good news is nice, so let's do...
53m ago from Arseblog.com

Liverpool would have to pay £86m in order to beat...

Real Madrid have reportedly set an £86m (100 million) minimum price tag...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

“The best”, “Top” - Moises Caicedo, Liam...

Robert Sanchez's Chelsea teammates have hailed to Spanish goalkeeper...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

The actual transfer fee Arsenal will pay for the...

Arsenal have reached an agreement for the signing of Swedish striker...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.