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Brawn reassures: Do not overreact after Massa's incident

After seeing Massa's incident live in millions of living rooms the discussions about Formula One's safety has obviously started immediately. But according to team boss Ross Brawn F1 shouldn't come up with anything radical but keep it in perspective.

"We need to keep a perspective of it I guess," Brawn was quoted by Autosport. "From what has been seen last weekend and this weekend, we need to have a proper study to see if there is a need to do something. You really are into the area of structures, windscreens and canopies, and anything is possible. We just need to digest what has happened, and understand it properly.

"I think it is time to look at the whole thing, and take a balanced approach. You can have covers, you can have canopies, but you have got to get at the drivers to extract him if there is a problem. So you don't want a structure that collapses down on the driver, and there are a lot of secondary considerations. It is something we will look at I am sure.

"In the history of F1 it is a fairly fare occurrence, the (cockpit) sides are quite high now and we have the headrests around the drivers. So that is why we will have to take a balanced view. If there is a need to react then I am sure F1 will react very promptly, but it is making sure that we don't do anything to make the situation worse on balance."

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