Present at the departure of the 2015 Jayco Herald Sun Tour, Simon Clarke will try to defend his title with his team, Orica GreenEDGE Cycling Team. Last year, he won the 2014 edition by eight seconds ahead the Australian Cameron Wurf (Cannondale Pro Cycling). 

"Sun Tour is going to be very different this year," Clarke explained according to Cyclingnews. "Obviously last year there was a couple of WorldTour teams and we really raced each other. This year there is only us and that is really unfortunate. I don't know the circumstances behind it but we are really going to be marked." Indeed, there will be only one World Tour team. But we will find also three strong team: MTN Qhubeka with Tyler Farrar, UnitedHealthcare with Chris Jones and Andiron Giocattoli with Franco Pellizotti.

"It's going to be similar to a national's situation where it's us versus the rest so we are going to have our work cut out and I think it's going to be a race where, although I'd like to defend, I think we need to defend it as a team. We have to leave our options open because 120 guys can easily just mark one GreenEdge rider so we are going to go in with a few options," he said. "Cam [Meyer] is going really well, Damien Howson … we have some good guys there and as much as I'd like to defend it, as long as we defend it as a team, then I think it will obviously be a successful result."