I started in 2D, and already in our loading/holding pen, when some 1D riders tried to get into their group by moving the barricade of our loading pen (1D was at this stage just loading for their scheduled start) when the one female Marshall stormed them, stopping them from loading and shouted "you are late, you missed your start, now you will start later" and pushed them back into our group. Obviously, we all remonstrated with her, showing 1D is just loading for their start. It took quite a few minutes before she conceded and allowed them to load. You should have seen the look of relieve on the 1D riders faces. Strangely, not one of them opposed her, it was us 2D riders who showed her to the errors of her rude ways.
Going up Chappies, just before the tunnel, a 4A rider came blasting past us on his E-bike, and a few of us huffing and puffing up the climb, remarked that there is no way he started in the correct start group. At that stage we just saw 3A and 3B riders starting to filter past us, so he was definitely a huge outlier.
