Based on the way the trails are holding up to the weather, I reckon it could be really interesting...raining here tonight 1.5km from the finish line...but been dry all day...bucketed down in town (17kms away) for a good 30 minutes this arvo which if was over the trails would make things "interesting".
My call is hero dirt for the bulk of the track if we continue to get intermittent showers- hopefully for the riders they all have similar race conditions and not showers during the race. HOWEVER, Alien Tree will take at least a day or two of dry to dry out, vines and above Ronnings Ramp have a couple of places that take a lot to dry out too. So it could be a 95% perfect fast track, with 5% being damp ground and wet roots...:rockon:
Remember, 2014 cyclone Ita came through the week before the event and soaked the region, and then we had the obligatory hanging on rainfall after - throughout the event from memory about 100mm in the week, enough to make any track a mess. Look at the lead up to Lourdes!