Alex Dowsett lost his leaders jersey as Julian Vermote took victory on the Tour Of Britain Stage Seven.
With Movistar's Alex Dowsett in the lead of the race, the riders minus two non-starters in Planet (TNN) and Bennett (TNE) left Camberley heading for Brighton on what was the longest ever stage of any stage in the Tour Of Britain.
On this 226km stage, five riders in Ista (IAM Cycling), Van Baarle (Garmin Sharp), Ignatas Konovalovas (MTN Qhubeka), Bialablocki (VGR) & Vermote of Omega Pharma Quick Step) broke and established a lead of 3.56 after 50kms.
The first Yodel sprint of the day came after 81kms at Horsham and Dylan Van Baarle took the points in front of big crowds.
The lead was out to nine minutes as Van Baarle took the second sprint ahead of Vermote and Bialobloski and then the third sprint.
At Beachy Head, Konovalovas took the climb with Mark McNally taking a point which was enough to give him the King Of The Mountain jersey.
With forty kilometres left, the gap was down to five minutes and was down to 2.47 when Vermote went away on the Ditching Beacon climb.
Dowsett managed to stay with the group of contenders for a time but dropped back and had to be paced by Visconti.
Vermote kept going and he took victory on the sea front in Brighton in 5.12.34 with Konovalovas finishing second 23 seconds back.
Third was Dylan Van Baarle and he takes over the lead of the race going into tomorrow's final two stages which are 8.8km time trial and then an 88km circuit race in London.
Van Baarle said, "I possibly went under the radar a bit I was still I think 14th in GC but they don't know my name for now, and hopefully they will remember me.
"I'm really tired. It was a pretty hard day, we went almost from start to finish full gas and when I crossed the line i was completely dead.
"I started to think we might do it when we had ten minutes in the break. Then some DS said there were only two Movistar guys riding and then we held the pace really high. Then Julien [Vermote] said he wasn't going to ride anymore because OPQS are chasing. At that moment me and Konovalovas went full gas to the finish line.
"Before the start of this race I knew that I wanted to show my name a little bit, show myself maybe get a top ten or top fifteen but I didn't expect to be wearing the yellow jersey. Now I'm thinking about the podium or maybe winning.
"I like the short prologue distances for time-trial. I'm not a Wiggins that needs 50km or whatever. I'm more a prologue specialist. I will do my best and we will see what happens tomorrow. I don't know how the legs will feel tomorrow for the other guys and it will be hard tomorrow.”