This event was reported on WIN TV (Gippsland). My report also uses info from participants. Whereas the Honda - Wayne Gardner ride of a couple of years back was a fore-ever memorable occasion, today's ride was a disaster for the participants, and there were many. One report had the traffic stream at 14 km long. The pace was abysmal, even to the extent of being dangerous. The message was sent from the rear patrol car to the one leading, that the speed at the back of the group was exceeding the speed limit in an effort to keep up, thus the speed of the whole column was slowed accordingly. At some times this was only 60kph on the open hwy. The *image* (safety?) conscious participants generally kept their places, refraining from speeding up. They suffered the humiliation, but some aired it to the media at the Morwell pitstop. A big raspberry goes to the driver of the patrol car, who from near the rear of the group saw the need to travel down the wrong side of the divided road inc median strip leading into Traralgon, for no important reason other than self importance. This caused mayhem in the stream of on-coming traffic. What happened after Morwell, I'm unsure. Another evening report on the Grand Prix reported that the State Government had returned to the authors, a study on the economic returns to the State from conducting the event. Apparently, the Govn't was unhappy with the results shown?? Rockit