SYNERGY BAKU CYCLING PROJECT TO THE HERALD SUN TOUR Team looks to Luke Davison in the prologue The Synergy Baku Cycling Project is looking to Luke Davison to star in the prologue of the Herald Sun Tour (February 5-9 / UCI 2.1). The Australian, who won a stage in the race last year, will lead a multi-nation squad in his homeland race. Luke wins Stage 2 in 2013 (courtesy HST)  Video interview with Luke Along with Davison, the team will feature Azeris Elchin Asadov and Tural Isgandarov, fellow Australian Pat Lane and Germans Daniel Klemme and Christoph Schweizer. With Davison, Klemme and Schweizer, “we have a sprinters team,” said sport director Jeremy Hunt. “Elchin and Tural are for the breakaways, and GC is all for Pat Lane.” Pat Lane interview here "The Sun Tour goes back a long way. It is a race with history. Our own DS's Jeremy Hunt,  Arvis Piziks and perhaps David McCann have all ridden it,” said team manager David McQuaid. “We are very grateful to John Trevorrow, Adam Renn and their team for giving us a start". “We have a decent team there, for some of the riders the first race of the season, others will have the hard New Zealand Cycle Classic in their legs. I know it will stand to them when they are up against the GreenEDGE, Garmin and Cannondale guys in the sprints. But we also have a secret weapon in Luke Davison. The race opens with a 2.5km prologue in CDB streets in Melbourne at dusk. We couldn't have asked for a better platform for Luke to perform in his first race with Synergy Baku." Last year, Davison, riding for SASI Cycling / Feelgood Fitness, won the race's second stage out of a breakaway.  The 23-year-old won the Omnium at the UCI Track World Cup track meet in Aguascalientes in December as well as being on the winning team pursuit squad. Most recently he won the Australian national title in the Madison. The race opens with a 2.5km prologue through “the heart of Melbourne,” and the team is counting on Davison that day. Stage one offers the first mountain points and a rolling run-in to the finish line in Ballarat. The second and third and stages are expected to end in bunch sprints, while the closing fourth stage will decide the overall winner. This 124km closer features three climbs of Arthur's Seat, a tough climb sure to test riders' tired legs.