Korumburra Grand Prix   

Aboriginal for the word “Blow fly”, the small rural town of Korumburra (population 9000) is known as the heritage centre of South Gippsland. The region is famous for The Giant Gippsland Earthworm (Megascolides Australis) which is the world's largest earthworm and only found in a 40,000 hectare area between Loch, Korumburra and Warragul.

The town saw rapid expansion during the 1870s to 1920s due to the discovery of...

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Aboriginal for the word “Blow fly”, the small rural town of Korumburra (population 9000) is known as the heritage centre of South Gippsland. The region is famous for The Giant Gippsland Earthworm (Megascolides Australis) which is the world's largest earthworm and only found in a 40,000 hectare area between Loch, Korumburra and Warragul.

The town saw rapid expansion during the 1870s to 1920s due to the discovery of a black coal seam. The remnants of the boom can be seen in Coal Creek Community Park and Museum, a re-created village which depicts life in the area during those earlier days.

Winding through the Strzelecki ranges, the race will reach a maximum elevation of 400m above sea level with the brutal “Mt. Misery” climb – a 3km section of road averaging 6% in gradient being the ideal vantage point for excited spectators to see the gamut of visiting international superstars.

The terrain varies between dense Eucalypt forests to grazing farmland along the 132km stretch of road, with the rolling green hills best suiting a rouleur type rider whose abilities are distributed evenly across all relevant disciplines.