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!
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.
