Pierre Gasly has endured a home race to forget at the French Grand Prix as🐠 he blamed setup changes to his Red Bull for losing pace and “sliding everywhere” at Circuit Paul R🍌icard.

Having gained confidence from practice, Gasly’s home round became a nightmare situation when he qualified down in ninth place, before suffering similar problems in the race as he finished down in 11^th place – only to be promoted to 10^th due to a post-race penalty for Renault’s Dan🌌iel Ricciardo.

Trying to find answers to his drop in pace, the French driver believes key set changes made between pra▨ctice and qualifying on Saturday wrecked his chances as he couldn’t find grip in his RB15.

“There is a lo𝄹t of work to be done to try and understand what happened,” Gasly said. “We were quite fast in FP3 but then from qualifying onwards, we have lost a lot of pace. There has been some setup work done on the car between FP3 and qualifying, I won’t go into too many detail🌳s.

“We were sliding a lot. There is a lot of wor💛k to do to understand why we’re struggling so much with grip.

“It’s disappointing to perform in that manner at home but the bigger issue is understa🅺nding wha🍎t is wrong with the car. I’m giving everything at the wheel but I’m sliding everywhere.

“We lacked grip, which is not norm💜al with the car we have. This was the first time I felt so♊ little grip so we need to find answers.”

Gasly’s difficult start🏅 to 2019 with Red Bull has continued, especially compared to teammate Max Verstappen, with the French driver now 63 points behind in the standings while his best result of the season so far remains fifth place at the Monaco Grand Prix.