Gasly stopped on track after his car cut out late in the race, and a spectacular fire ensued that led to a safety car period.
The Faenza team now has to undertake a substantial rebuild before next weekend’s Saudi Arabian GP in Jeddah, and may even change the Frenchman’s chassis.
However, a longer term concern is that the team admits he may have to discard one of the two Honda energy stores he is allocated for the season after just one race weekend, which would almost certainly guarantee a grid penalty as he won’t be able to do the remaining races without a further change.
“Other power unit elements might also have been damaged by the fire.
Gasly had enjoyed a strong race at Sakhir and had been fighting with the likes of Fernando Alonso and Kevin Magnussen before he stopped.
“I literally had zero warning, which is very strange,” he said when asked by Autosport about his retirement.
“I’m not not too sure what happened yet, just out of Turn 1 the whole car switched off,…
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