@pooriggy it was a dirt / gravel / grass road... Grass in the middle, dirt / gravel in the car tire track grooves...
It was a freak accident, wrong place wrong time and there was no way to see it coming to escape it.. The tape was all over the place and the stakes were down and I happened to be in a spot when a gust of wind picked up and blew the tape in front of my bars...
I talked to the photographer after the race who was literally standing right there and he said they tried to put the stake back in the ground several times earlier in the day but the ground was so hard they needed a hammer to get it fully in to the ground. So the wind kept blowing them out.
unfortunately, he did not get pics of me falling. WOOD HAVE BEEN A GREAT ARTIFACT FOR THE RACE RECAP