World Championship Road Race 2010

It's going to come down to a tactical battle between the teams who want it to end in a sprint, like Spain, Germany, Norway and the British team, and those that don't, such as Belgium, Italy and Luxembourg. The unknown, for me at least, is what the Aussies plan to do, i.e. do they want a sprint for Allan Davis, who'd get beaten by the likes of Freire, Cavendish and Hushovd 49 times out of 50, or are they hoping to get the likes of Gerrans and Evans into breaks?

Totally.

I've not been this giddy for a Worlds in ages!

Evans is going to pull rank in my opinion, and Davis is the back up plan.

Problem is, if Evans or Gilbert get in a break then the peloton will go batshit to pull it back.

Also, no-one is going to try a break until 3 laps to go, not on that course.

It'll be a classic style ending (war of attrition, whittling down a group of 30 or so)
or a sprint.
A group of less that 12 haven't a hope in hell.