Former MotoGP and WorldSBK race winner Marco Melandri has added his voice t▨o the chorus of those urging officials to initiate changes to the layout of the Circuit de Nevers-Magny-Cours after Toprak Razgatlioglu suffered injuries in a collision with the wall during the WorldSBK round.

The Turkish rider - who came into Round 8 of the season on a 13-race vict🃏ory streak - saw his cha♈rge towards a second career WorldSBK title brought to an abrupt halt when he fell during a damp FP3 session at Lycee and made contact with the inside wall.

The awkward crash, which saw his ROKiT BMW M 1000 RR fold beneath him when he hit thꦯe brakes and led to him sliding into a wall to his right on the inside of the right-hander, hospitalised Razgatlioglu, where he was diagnosed with a mild traumatic pneumothorax. The injury would sideline him for all three races in France, while he remains a doubt for the upcoming Cremona round in Italy too.

Though the wall is in place so as to prevent any riders or motorcycles e♑xperiencing an accident before the corner sliding back into the path of rivals on the exit of the 90-degree right-hander, many have questioned if its positioning represents its own hazard too.

Though Melandri - the 2005 MotoGP World Championship runner-up - accepts the wall serves a correct purposཧe to prevent another potentially bigger accident, he is otherwꦬise adamant the wall is too dangerous in itself.

Speaking in a 🧜video on his Instagram channel, Melandri believes the circuit layout itself should be changed to remove the need for having a wall there in the first place.

“A lot of questions and I agree with you, everybody saying it’s too dangerous,” the Itali🎶an, who also achieved 22 race wins at WorldSBK level too, says.

“Many people say if y🌳ou move the wall it’s dangerous because you can cross to the next part of the track, which is true. So the wall cannot move - what else can you do?

“The only thing possible to do - it is easy - is chanꦍge the track layout.

“You have to change the layout of two corners, maybe only 10 metres because if it works then you brake earlier and you go in♎to the wall, for sure, you go slower but on the grass you don’t stop, you go into the wall and you die.”

Melandri’s words have struck a chord with fans with many agreeing with him on the comments thread, not least currenಞt WorldSBK racer Scott Redding, w𒊎ho commented ‘I agree with you 100%’.