Stiggy Honda's Leon Haslam has called for changes to be made to the first chicane at Monza because it is so slow and tight and, with riders braking from 200mph to 30mph, it's a recipe for crashes.

Alstare Suzuki's Max Neukirchner underwent a six-hour operation on his broken right femur after the first-corner, first-lap crash which also saw Makoto Tamada break a wrist and Brendan Roberts get badly battered.

Writing in his exclsive bikesportnews.com column, Haslam said: "They have got to sort something out for that first chicane at Monza. People put chicanes in to slow people down and make things safer but just end up making it more dangerous. People were also cutting the chicanes and getting away with fast laptimes too.

"That chicane is a place for making moves and stuffing it up the inside, sure, but that's a recipe for crashes, especially at those speeds. It is so slow and so tight and you're having to judge your speed from over 200mph down to 30mph. If it was a flowing one, you could all go in at a similar speed but because the speeds vary so much and the corner is so tight. Any tight chicane is dangerous. If you look at the chicanes put in at Mallory or Silverstone, there are 30 times more crashes now they are there than there were when there weren't chicanes."

READ MORE OF HASLAM'S MONZA THOUGHTS HERE