Felipe Massa: Max Verstappen crash due to lack of experience

Verstappen hit the rear of Romain Grosjean's Lotus at high speed approaching Ste Devote, breaking his front left suspension and suffering a heavy impact against the wall.

Verstappen was later penalised for the collision despite claiming Grosjean had brake tested him, and Massa says it's the sort of incident that shouldn't be overlooked just because nobody was injured.

"I would say what for me was pretty dangerous was the accident with Verstappen," Massa said. "He's supposed to get a penalty for what he did. So he just braked behind, much later and what happened was very dangerous.

"So it shows that maybe experience counts in Formula One, and I think to teach about this type of accident they need to control better because it was very dangerous. So he was lucky that he was not hurt, because he could have been very hurt by what happened."

With Verstappen blaming Grosjean for brake testing him, Massa says he was too far behind to even attempt a move.

"To be honest he was not even in a position to overtake. He was not even near to go alongside, he was behind. So to be honest it was too much what happened."

And Massa says he may bring up his concerns with the FIA. Asked by F1i if it is something he will raise as a senior driver, Massa replied:"Well with this type of mistakes, yes.

"It was very dangerous for him. He's 17, so if he's hurt everybody would talk about it. 'Why did they give a licence to a guy who is 17 and he's doing that?' But he's not hurt, everybody's happy, so I think they need to look at things in a better way."