Haas' Ayao Komatsu says Formula 1 cannot make knee-jerk reaction despite Oliver Bearman Suzuka crash

Bearman was chasing Alpine's Franco Colapinto during the race in Suzuka las weekend, and approached him at over 300 kph while the Argentine's car went into harvesting mode, slowing down massively with the speed differential of over 50 kph.

Bearman was caught out by the slowing Alpine and went over the grass trying to avoid it, lost control of his Haas, which spun, and ended up in the barrier in what turned out to be a 50G crash.

Bearman thankfully walked safely away from the crash, albeit limping with a bruised knee, but his incident has generated outrage among drivers and fans as Formula One Management and the FIA are expected, or demanded, to take action over the war-imposed April break with races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia cancelled.

However, Komatsu believes the sport should not rush into decisions; he said: "We're looking at it from all dimensions because, when we make changes, we've got to make the correct ones.

"We cannot be making knee-jerk reaction changes and then a few races later be saying, 'that was the wrong option'.

"The good thing is that the F1 community, all the teams, the FIA, F1, we're all working together in a really open and transparent manner, which I don't think I've seen to this extent before.

"I'm pretty confident that F1, as a community, we'll find the right solution to whatever things we need to improve," he maintained.

Komatsu assured Bearman was fine and will be ready to race in Miami; he added: "He is fine. Thankfully, he's just got a bruised knee; nothing's broken.

"I'm really grateful that he came away with nothing too serious. He should be back fully ready for Miami," the Haas team principal concluded. (Source: Sky Sports News)