Giro d'Italia 2014

It's common across the Mediterranean in my experience. They don't get much rain and, when they do, a combination of residue from cars, dust and other stuff makes the surfaces so slick you don't get any grip. It's lethal.

It's always worse in urban areas, presumably because of the higher volume of traffic, so a 8 km urban circuit was always going to be risky if it rained.

Still, any chance to post this is always good;

Giro 2007 Stage 11 Crash - YouTube

Around Easter its often nice and dry up here. Not for as long or as warm as Southern europe of course. But the cars still have their metal studded tyres on creating epic Levels of tarmac dust. Often worsened by the black snow beside the road melting and depositing even more dust. The next time it rains it gets insanely slippy.

Although that clip looks unreal.