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Gasly: 'Near-miss was scariest moment of my career!'

Toro Rosso drivers Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley came close to taking each other out in a dramatic moment near the end of the first round of Saturday's qualifying session in Baku. Hartley was running at low speed after hitting the wall and suffering a puncture. Meanwhile Gasly was on a flying lap when he came up behind his touring team mate. The Frenchman had only a fraction of a second to react to avoid a devastating collision. "It was really scary," Gasly said afterwards. "Probably the scariest moment of my career! "I was sure I was going to crash into Brendon, because it's the part of the track where we're going at 320kph," he noted. "I could already see...
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