Jayco-AlUla may not have had the Tour Down Under they were looking for but thanks to an unrelenting solo effort from Swiss champion Mauro Schmid they have managed to end the Australian summer on a high note, with the team’s first victory at the men’s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
Things didn’t look to be going well for the men’s squad when the Australian team walked away from the racing in South Australia without so much as a podium result and then they also lost a key card, Luke Plapp, who instead of pinning on a number was getting surgery on his wrist.
