FDJ's Arnaud Demare won the 4 Jours de Dunkerque (Four Days Of Dunkirk) second stage.
Four riders in Evaldas Siskevicius (Sojason), Florian Vachon (Bretagne), Yves Lampaert (Topsport) and BigMat's Flavien Dassonville, escaped on this 178.2km stage from Lewarde to Douchy-les-Mines and had a 1.32 lead with 63kms to go.
Five kilometres later and Evaldas Siskevicius did very well not to smash into a wall when he led the quartet into a left hand turn at high speed.
The speed from the peloton meant that the gap dropped and was down to seventeen seconds with 55kms to go.
The attack was dealt with and two riders in Sojasun's Julien El Fares and Rudy Kowalski (Roubaix Lille Metropole) took over, quickly building a fifty second lead over the peloton which contained race leader Arnaud Demare.
Kowalski took the sprint with 31kms to go and the pair were still away, sixteen kilometres later, with twenty seconds lead on the final lap before the finish in Douchy-les-Mines.
With fifteen to go, the peloton decided that El Fares and Kowalski's time at the front was over and they swept them up.
Into the final five kilometres and Cofidis were on the front, driving the peloton onwards.
There were 200ms togo when FDJ's Arnaud Demare made his move down the middle and won the stage in a time 4.12.40 ahead of Van Hummel and Sinkledam.
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