Stage 1 winner Sam Welsford (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) leads the final classification with 4 seconds on Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease A Bike). Zac Marriage (ARA Australia), who spent many of the stage within the break, sits in third place, 5 seconds down by advantage of the time bonus seconds taken within the intermediate sprints.
Welcome to Cyclingnews‘ dwell protection of the Tour Down Under stage 2, beginning and ending in Tanuda. The stage begins at 11:10am native time or 12:30am GMT and finishes roughly three hours later.