Organisers of the 1.Pro-ranked Surf Coast Classics said on Tuesday that both the women's and men's events, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday respectively, would be cancelled given the evolving bushfire and weather situation in the area.
The mid-week run-up races to the weekend's Mapei Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race had already faced alterations. The start for both was initially moved to the finish location of Torquay on Monday, and the event was set to run on a course looping north instead, given that warnings foreshadowing the advice to evacuate due to the fire in the Otways region were already impacting communities on the original planned course.
