Argus is a harder route than gravel worlds was.
There’s nothing stopping you from taking a descent slowly if you are worried about crashing.
Study the route, ask locals about conditions if you can’t pre ride portions of route, put some tougher / bigger tyres on your bike and work on your skills.
If you look at Matt’s bike he didn’t have huge tyres on, isn’t a light guy and was fine (clearly) on the descent.
That’s the beauty / point of gravel racing, conditions change and are supposed to be challenging.
Or it would be road racing.
P.S. the section in question was the victim of roadworks where shale / gravel had been put down and due to the normal vagaries of SA public works, had not been fully crushed / compacted yet.
The organisers made it abundantly clear both with caution signs and with repeated warnings in race briefing packs and prior to each batch start that the road was bad and caution had to be taken.
All of the other jeep track / forestry road sections that are not manicured had at the least been swept and checked for any obstacles - one section I recently rode that was full of sticks etc from tree felling had literally been scraped clean so due care was 100% taken.
