Daniel Ricciardo says he was left fe🐠eling “cautious” of how the Renault team members would treat him after his slow-speed crash in Azerbai🃏jan two weeks ago.

Ricciardo was forced to retire from the race at the Baku City Circuit after reversing his car ༺into Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso at slow speed, both✨ having gone deep into a run-off area after locking up.

The collision left both cars with🍰 damage that meant they could not complete the race when both had been in contention for a points finish.

“I didn’t want to watch it, bu🌱t by Monday night I watched a replay of it,” R🐻icciardo said.

“When you are in that position, when anyone makes a mistake, you always feel like it 🔥is going to look worse than it felt. Of course it sucked watching it, but I actually felt a bit better when I saw my onboard.

“I did look in my mirror, I just looked in my right mirror when Dany was on my left side. When I retired and went straight to media, I thought I’d p🌊anicked and started reversing straight away and I d🥀idn’t even look.”

Ricciardoꩲ said he was able to move on from the crash “pretty quickly”, but admitted he was fearful of what Renault’s res🌺ponse would be when he return to the factory.

“By Monday I was already getting shit from my friends. Then I watched the replay, and on Tuesday I was al❀l good,” Ricci⭕ardo said.

“Iꦆ was in Viry on the Monday. Even just seeing the people there, I was a bit cautious how everyone was going to treat me on Monday. It felt like they’d♛ already forgiven me and that felt good.

“I was in Ensto✨ne on Tuesday, so kind of fa✨cing everyone straight away was a good cure.”

The setback was the latest amid a difficult start to Ric♌ciardo’s season that has seen him fail to finish three of the opening four races.

Ricciardo felt downbeat in the aftermath of the incident, particularly when points looked within reach after a difꦑficult weekend for Renault.

“I was upset because in the race it felt l▨ike we’d turned around to end what was already a difficult weekend. I felt we were going to end it on a positive note,” Ricciardo s𓄧aid.

“I felt more for the m💝orale of the team. We could have been patting each other on the back b🦋ut instead everyone had their head down. I felt responsible for the feeling that we all left the race with. That was what I didn’t want.

“Of course I feel a responsibility to ౠbring this team up in one-way shape or another. And I had an opportunity to do that and I did not.

“I felt down about that.”