Thibaut Pinot remains the leader of Tour De Suisse by thirty four seconds from Team Sky's Geraint Thomas going into the final 38km time trial after the FDJ rider finished safely on stage eight.
Stage eight was centred around the city of Berne with a 164km stage comprising of four laps of 38km circuit which on twisty, winding roads, offered 1900m of climbing.
As soon as the flag dropped twelve riders went on the attacks including Martin Elmiger (IAM Cycling), Fränk Schleck (Trek), Michael Albasini (Orica GreenEdge), and the world champion Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx Quickstep).
That break was brought back and another nineteen riders formed a new break with Kwiatkowski, Albasini joined by the likes of Warren Barguil (Giant-Alpecin), who was the best placed at 4.52 down on the lead of Thibaut Pinot, Jan Bakelants (Ag2r), Winner Anacona (Movistar) and Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto Soudal).
Team Sky working to keep Geraint Thomas in second place, and a number of other teams made sure that this group never got more than 2.30 clear.
However, on the last lap with twenty kilometres left, Astana's Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), stormed away. Only Jan Bakelandts of AG2R could initially keep pace with the Kazakh but was forced to drop away by the power and determination of Lutsenko, who was to have his day and ride home to take the win in 3.28.11, a second ahead of Bakelandts and seven ahead of Warren Barguil, followed by Marco Haller, Daniele Bennati, Michael Albasini, Matteo Trentin, Danilo Wyss, Winner Anacona and Stijn Devolder of Trek Factory Racing.