"You want to be in the box seat after today's stage," was the clear message Jayco AlUla sports director Mathew Hayman told Cyclingnews before the start of stage 2 of the Santos Tour Down Under to Uraidla. That, however, ended up being a position decisively held by UAE Team Emirates-XRG by the end of the day, but the Australian squad did come home as the best of the rest with a strong performance from Mauro Schmid.
Schmid took third place on the stage from the chase behind the winning teammates of Jay Vine and Jhonatan Narváez, with the Swiss champion sprinting to a position on the stage and overall podium from a chase of eight.
