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Ricciardo thought he was going to crash out of Baku qualifying 

Daniel Ricciardo thought he was going to crash out of Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying following a “kiss” with the barriers during his first Q3 run.  The Red Bull driver was on his first flying lap in the final segment of qualifying when he ran wide and touched the wall on the exit of Turn 15 - the same corner he crashed at in practice at the 2016 Baku event.  Ricciardo avoided sustaining damage to his RB14 in the brush with the barriers and admitted he simply took too much speed into the corner.  “Q3 on the first run we brushed the wall and lost some time,” Ricciardo explained. “The last lap I had to make it clean and fortunately clean was fast enough for the second row....
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