Australian WorldTour team Mitchelton-Scott starts the 2018 Herald Sun Tour aiming to close out the Australian summer with its fourth overall win in five years.
The team started the summer with Alex Edmondson winning the national title before Daryl Impey added the overall Tour Down Under title. Impey was then third at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race. The Sun Tour is now the final target of the summer with defending champion Damien Howson, 2015 winner Cameron Meyer and Esteban Chaves headlining the squad.
"The Sun Tour is always a special race, the team has always done really well. I have been fortunate to be involved in a few wins with Cameron Meyer and Simon Clarke, and also last year to get my own piece of glory was very special to me and something I will always remember," Howson said ahead of the race.
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"Going in as defending champion, I am very excited. It'll be a new experience and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to come back to the Sun Tour and racing well."
The 2018 Herald Sun Tour is one of the more challenging routes in race history with the queen stage to Lake Mountain a leg-sapping 218 kilometres. The previous day's stage 2 from Warrnambool to Ballarat at 198.6 kilometres also testing the riders early in the season. While stage 3 is set to decide the overall, the final day circuit race around Kinglake will be the final deciding factor.
For Meyer, the final stage will be key and explained a full team effort across the five days of racing will be required to secure the yellow jersey.
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