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Italian Grand Prix Stewards deemed Red Bull's championship
leader Verstappen was at fault for Sunday's collision and handed
the Dutch youngster a three-place grid penalty for the next race
in Russia.
Brawn, a former Honda and Mercedes team boss and ex-Ferrari
technical head, said fans were sure to be split on who was to
blame.
"It’s clear both drivers could have avoided it," he said in his
regular post-race column on the official http://www.formula1.com
website.
"Ultimately, I think it’s another consequence of two guys going
head to head and not wanting to give an inch.
"Personally, I wouldn’t say it has changed the dynamic. You’ve
got two cockerels in the farmyard at the moment and we are
seeing the consequence of it.
"I don’t think either will back off at any moment for the rest
of the year but I hope the championship is won on the track not
in the barriers or the stewards' room."
Sunday was the second big clash between the two in the space of
five races after earlier wheel-to-wheel incidents.
At the British Grand Prix in July, Verstappen crashed at speed
and ended up in hospital for checks while Hamilton went on to
win in front of his home fans.
That race, like Monza, followed an experimental Saturday sprint
qualifying race and Brawn saw "plenty of positives".
"It shook up the order and led to a slightly evolved grid, which
in turn created a different dynamic in the race," he said.
"I think it offers a lot -- and we still have a track to try it
on. Then we’ll make an objective assessment and work out a way
forward."
He said the Italian Grand Prix also delivered "the strongest
ever weekend streaming numbers we’ve ever seen on our OTT
platform F1TV".
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Ed Osmond)
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