Haas driver Grosjean crashed heavily near the end of the session after he hit a dislodged drain cover at Turn 12, his right rear tyre exploding and his car being sent into the wall at high speed.

The Frenchman walked away uninjured but the session was stopped and not restarted as the FIA looked at the issue.

Massa, whose career nearly came to an end after being hit on the head by a spring from another car during qualifying for the 2009 Hungarian GP, was the car running behind the Haas.

"Fortunately this time, nothing flew over my car, and it was good also that Romain didn't have any issue with the accident – for sure his car not, but him, he's OK," Massa told Motorsport.com.

"I think the FIA need to control everything in the right way, so we don't have these things anymore.

"I was just the car behind, the first thing I thought was I had already a spring on my head, so maybe a drain is a little bit too much!

"I could see that maybe he passed over something, but I didn't know exactly what it was. But fortunately nothing happened," the Williams driver added.

Grosjean called for action to make sure incidents like this do not happen again.

"I have just seen the footage and apparently a drain came out," he said. "It was on the racing line and I had a big hit and impact on rear right, and I see the tyre is not there any more – I was spinning and heading to the wall, so not ideal.

"I think they need to sort things out, it is a shame – hopefully we find a good set-up for tomorrow and the drains stay in place.

"I am good, I am fine. That is the most important thing, we need to prepare the car and I am sure the circuit is going to sort things out."

Additonal reporting by Adam Cooper