Can Luke Plapp help Jayco-AlUla reclaim the Australian road title he swiped?

2023 Australian National Championships: Luke Plapp celebrates successfully defending his 2022 elite men's road race title
2023 Australian National Championships: Luke Plapp celebrates successfully defending his 2022 elite men's road race title (Image credit: Con Chronis)

For the last two years, while racing with Ineos Grenadiers at the Australian Road National Championships Luke Plapp may have been a lone ranger, but nevertheless, he has managed to claim the green and gold jersey in the road race both times.

This time, however, Plapp will be lining up with Jayco-AlUla – the team with strength in numbers that everyone will be looking at to control the race.

The only Australian WorldTour team undoubtedly would like to reassert its dominance when it comes to the regular turn around the Buninyong circuit, and now they have the winner of the last two editions within their fold. 

Simone Giuliani
Australia Editor

Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg. Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.