On the roads of the ProTour East Midlands Cicle Classic comes the only Cobbled race on the Mini-ManGame calendar.



By the first cobbles, a break of 8 has been established: Schnaidt (7-Eleven), Duret (Peugeot), Aarbia (Standard Bank), Suur (Kalev), Wu (Fiji), Sakellaridis (Argo Airways), Brown (Commonwealth Bank), Wijnands (Electrabel)



They build up a lead of around 3 minutes.

But with 100km still to go, a dangerous counter-move launches with 4 riders who are amongst the best in the whole race on the cobbles. And two are from the same team!



Joly, Martinez (BNP Paribas), Lovassy (Rucanor), Kosic (America Movil)

They catch up with the breakaway.



Van Merksteijn and LKT are controlling the peloton, and have cut the gap to the now 12 man breakaway to 2 minutes.

But the gap then starts to rise again. Zoegas' stagiare from HTC-Nieuwsblad Olli Kulppi decides to try and bridge across the gap, once it had risen up to 3 minutes.



A tough ask for the Finnish rider, but about 18km later he has indeed managed to catch the breakaway!



There's one problem though - the 4 danger riders of Joly, Martinez, Lovassy and Kosic have already left the rest of the breakaway behind.



With 40km to go, the lead of those 4 on the peloton has reached 5 minutes - this is looking very dangerous. Who has the firepower to chase them, when the strongest cobbled team in the race, Rucanor, have no need to work with their team leader being in that group.

Van Merksteijn and LKT have been joined by SFR in chasing now.



Terrible luck up front for Kulppi. After all that hard work earlier in the race, he crashes.



Once he has got going again, he finds himself already back in the peloton! The rest of the initial breakaway are also caught by 20km to go, but the 4 leaders still have a 5 minute advantage.

BNP Paribas have two cards to play, while Lovassy is the strongest sprinter. No surprise then that Kosic reckons his best chance is to attack.



There is also - finally - some action from the peloton. Vanthourenhout (Dexia), Frischkorn (7-Eleven) and Simunek (Node4-Giordana) try a move.



None of the attacks get anywhere, but as you can see, the peloton has now been reduced to around 30 riders.



With 10km to go though, and the leaders still 4 minutes clear, the peloton are only racing for 5th place now.

Kosic's attempts to get away have not worked, so it is time for the four to plot their sprinting tactics on the run in to the finish. Can BNP Paribas make use of their numerical advantage?



Of the two Frenchman, Martinez is the strongest sprinter. So almost inevitably it is his teammate Joly who is forced to lead it out. Lovassy and Kosic follow, with Martinez at the back of the line.

Joly isn't opening the sprint, and for good reason. At 1.5km to go, their tactics become clear as Martinez jumps from the back in an attempt to surprise Lovassy and Kosic.



It is a great move and he opens up a gap, Lovassy now tries to chase after him.



The Hungarian is definitely making up ground on Martinez, with the finish line approaching.



And yes, Krisztian Lovassy is able to move into the lead and win the Tour of Rutland!



It is a 2-3 for BNP Paribas - while 4th is still a great result for Kosic.

Now to that 5th place battle. No organisation in the peloton as the sprint begins, with Colin (Peugeot) and Frischkorn (7-Eleven) on the front



Van Ijzendoorn (Rucanor), Vanthourenhout (Dexia), Heijboer (Van Merksteijn), Hegreberg (Colombia), Renders (Dexia) and Mesfin (Standard Bank) are also towards the front.

Nobody else has the strength or speed to come through from behind, and it is the former Red Bull rider Vanthourenhout who secures 5th place, ahead of Frischkorn, Heijboer and Colin.



Despite being one of the few teams to work on front of the peloton, LKT have not been well rewarded - Krauss is their best rider in 23rd.

1	Krisztian Lovassy	Rucanor	5h28'38
2	Yannick Martinez	BNP Paribas	s.t.
3	Sébastien Joly	BNP Paribas	s.t.
4	Nejc Kosic	América Móvil	s.t.
5	Sven Vanthourenhout	Dexia	+ 3'14
6	Will Frischkorn	7-Eleven	s.t.
7	Mathieu Heijboer	Van Merksteijn	s.t.
8	Anthony Colin	Peugeot	s.t.
9	Eddy Van IJzendoorn	Rucanor	s.t.
10	Jens Renders	Dexia	s.t.
11	Getachew Mesfin	Standard Bank	s.t.
12	Roy Hegreberg	Coldeportes	s.t.
13	Leif Hoste	Rucanor	s.t.
14	Remco Te Brake	Van Merksteijn	s.t.
15	Sergey Renev	KazMunayGas	s.t.
16	Tijs Crombez	Dexia	s.t.
17	Kevin Pauwels	Argo Airways	s.t.
18	Olli Kulppi	Zoegas	s.t.
19	Gebru Alemayhu	Commonwealth Bank	s.t.
20	Kurt Hovelynck	Dexia	s.t.
21	Greg De Winde	Electrabel	s.t.
22	Rudi Van Houts	Van Merksteijn	s.t.
23	Sven Krauss	LKT	s.t.
24	David Deroo	Peugeot	s.t.
25	Radomir Simunek	Node4-Giordana	s.t.
26	Otavio Bulgarelli	Millenium	s.t.
27	Mark McNally	Node4-Giordana	s.t.
28	Heinrich Berger	LKT	s.t.
29	Bart Dockx	Dexia	s.t.
30	Arran Brown	Standard Bank	s.t.
31	Arnoud Van Groen	Van Merksteijn	s.t.
32	Florian Bissinger	LKT	s.t.
33	Ruslan Tleubayev	KazMunayGas	+ 4'52
34	Mike Northey	7-Eleven	s.t.
35	Peter Möhlmann	LKT	s.t.
36	Christian Meschenmoser	LKT	s.t.
37	Menno Horst	Van Merksteijn	s.t.
38	Stefan Wijnands	Electrabel	s.t.
39	Damien Robert	SFR	s.t.
40	Steve Bekaert	Van Merksteijn	s.t.
41	Sébastien Duret	Peugeot	+ 5'31
42	Tom Last	Node4-Giordana	+ 6'04
43	Robin Stenuit	Dexia	s.t.
44	Elia Rigotto	Miche	s.t.
45	Russell Downing	Node4-Giordana	s.t.
46	Lorenzo Bernucci	Miche	s.t.
47	Koen Barbé	Electrabel	s.t.
48	Tobyn Horton	Node4-Giordana	s.t.
49	Johan Landström	Zoegas	s.t.
50	Krzysztof Kuzniak	Zoegas	s.t.
51	Benoît Daeninck	BNP Paribas	s.t.
52	Pierpaolo Di Negri	Miche	s.t.
53	Cristian Omar Clavero	Kalev	s.t.
54	Markel Irizar	Eroski	s.t.
55	Ricardo Delgado Rubio	iBanesto.com	s.t.
56	Arnaud Grand	Rucanor	s.t.
57	Matthias Wengelin	Zoegas	s.t.
58	Martins Trautmanis	Kalev	s.t.
59	Dmitri Muravjev	Katusha	s.t.
60	Pierre-Luc Perichon	SFR	s.t.
61	Ivo Suur	Kalev	s.t.
62	Jimmy Casper	Electrabel	s.t.
63	Dieter Cappelle	Electrabel	s.t.
64	Boris Shpilevski	Katusha	s.t.
65	Fabian Schnaidt	7-Eleven	s.t.
66	Mike Aaron Egger	LKT	s.t.
67	Jens Mouris	Rucanor	s.t.
68	Rémi Pauriol	SFR	s.t.
69	Kevin Van den Eeckhout	Electrabel	s.t.
70	Ezzeddine Lagab	Argo Airways	s.t.
71	Adnane Aarbia	Standard Bank	s.t.
72	Graeme Brown	Commonwealth Bank	s.t.
73	Arnaud Gérard	SFR	s.t.
74	Emilien-Benoît Bergès	Peugeot	s.t.
75	Shengjun Wu	Fuji	s.t.
76	Julian Alaphilippe	SFR	s.t.
77	Stéphane Rossetto	SFR	+ 8'02
78	Neofytos Sakellaridis	Argo Airways	s.t.
79	Harry Kraft	Kalev	s.t.
80	Justin Jules	BNP Paribas	s.t.
81	Badr Mohamed Banihammad	Fuji	s.t.
82	Tigran Korkotyan	América Móvil	s.t.
83	Mark Jamieson	Commonwealth Bank	s.t.
84	Nathan Earle	Commonwealth Bank	s.t.
85	Arnaud Godet	BNP Paribas	s.t.
86	Dario Diaz	Fuji	s.t.
87	Sid Taberlay	Commonwealth Bank	s.t.
88	Libner Niv	BNP Paribas	s.t.
89	Shaun Higgerson	Commonwealth Bank	s.t.
90	Jakub Filip	KazMunayGas	s.t.
91	Carlos Lopez Gonzalez	América Móvil	s.t.
92	Shinagawa Masahiro	Fuji	s.t.
93	Aleksandr Khatuntsev	Katusha	s.t.
94	Mauricio Guillermo Frazer	Coldeportes	s.t.
95	Chin Lung Huang	Fuji	s.t.
96	Nico Schoch	Argo Airways	s.t.
97	Simas Kondrotas	Zoegas	s.t.
98	Victor Gomes Colinas	Eroski	s.t.
99	Luis Pulido	América Móvil	s.t.
100	Ahmed Ben Matoog	Argo Airways	s.t.
101	Marius Bernatonis	Kalev	s.t.
102	Lukas Postlberger	iBanesto.com	s.t.
103	Konstantin Volik	KazMunayGas	s.t.
104	Alexander Edmondson	Node4-Giordana	s.t.
105	Cyril Lemoine	Peugeot	s.t.
106	Adam Pierzga	Fuji	s.t.
107	Aleksei Kolessov	KazMunayGas	s.t.
108	Wim Stroetinga	Rucanor	s.t.
109	Andrea Moletta	Miche	s.t.
110	Byron Guama de la Cruz	Argo Airways	s.t.
111	Fernando Alexandre Pinho Machado	Millenium	s.t.
112	Reidar Borgersen	Zoegas	s.t.
113	Francisco José Pacheco	iBanesto.com	s.t.
114	Pedro Sibila Romero	iBanesto.com	s.t.
115	Benjamin Noval	Eroski	s.t.
116	Emanuel Yanes	Eroski	s.t.
117	Michele Viola	Miche	s.t.
118	Daniel Klemme	Peugeot	s.t.
119	Erivin Korts-Laur	Kalev	s.t.
120	Iván Melero	iBanesto.com	s.t.
121	André Mourato	Millenium	s.t.
122	José Manuel Saraiva	Millenium	s.t.
123	Pavel Kochetkov	Katusha	s.t.
124	Oleksandr Golovash	Katusha	s.t.
125	Martin Mata Cabello	Eroski	s.t.
126	Jeff Sherstobitoff	7-Eleven	s.t.
127	Martin Wesemann	Standard Bank	s.t.
128	William Germán Rodríguez Parra	Coldeportes	s.t.
129	Carlo Kirsch	7-Eleven	s.t.
130	Julian David Muñoz Giraldo	Coldeportes	s.t.
131	Francesco Tizza	Miche	s.t.
132	Phetetso Monese	Standard Bank	s.t.
133	Yennier López Fonseca	iBanesto.com	s.t.
134	Nathaniel English	7-Eleven	s.t.
135	Aleksei Markov	Katusha	s.t.
136	Ricardo Martins	Millenium	s.t.
137	Mirko Trosino	Coldeportes	s.t.
138	Frederic Obiang	Standard Bank	s.t.
139	Hélder Magalhães	Millenium	s.t.
140	Diego Alejandro Montoya	Coldeportes	s.t.
141	Viatcheslav Dyadichkin	KazMunayGas	+ 11'27
142	Miguel Luis Alvarez	América Móvil	+ 14'38
143	Héctor Hugo Rangel	América Móvil	s.t.
144	David Belda	Eroski	s.t.