Elia Viviani of Team Sky took his second victory in the Tour Of Britain with victory on stage three.
Stage three was a 216km stage which took the peloton from Cockermouth in Cumbria to Floors Castle, near Kelso in Scotland and saw a fast start before a six man break in Russ Downing (CLT), Adis Kruopis (SKT), Tyler Farrar (MTM), Matt Cronshaw (MTG), Jon McEvoy (NPC) and Marcin Bialoblocki (ONE) formed.
They were 4.10 ahead after thirty kilometres as Kruopis took the first sprint of the day and then the second.
Over the border into Scotland and Bialoblocki beat Kruopis to the third sprint as the lead went out to six minutes which meant that Jon McEvoy was now the virtual leader on the road.
Tyler Farrar took the six points on the Wauchope climb as the gap came down to 4.55 with 65 kilometres left.
Ian Stannard was on the front of the peloton for Team Sky as those in the break went through Hawick, heading towards the second climb at Walton Hill which was another category two climb.
Tyler Farrar again took the main points on the climb as the lead steadied at three minutes. Farrar, Cronshaw and Biablocki then opened up a gap between themselves and the others in the break.
The three worked together and they increased their lead to 4.11 with 36.1kms remaining.
Onto the final climb at Dingleton and the gap was still at over three minutes as Farrar again took the points.followed by Bialoblocki and Cronshaw.
With the climbs over for the day, there was twenty one kilometres left to complete before getting to the finish line.
Team Sky and Lotto Soudal put the hammer down and brought the gap to the trio up front down to thirty seconds with 7.5kms to go.
With 3.2kms to go, there was a crash and Petr Vakoc, the race leader went down and his time in the yellow jersey was over.whilst up the road, the break was dealt with.
Lotto Soudal were leading as they started on a 600m section of cobbles which took them under the flam rouge.
Under the castle gates and the sprint was on and Team Sky's Elia Viviani got himself into a great position and won in 5.08.17 ahead of Lobato of Movistar, Trentin, Enger, Debuscherre and Owain Doull who keeps the Best British rider jersey.
JJ Lobato of Movistar now leads the race by ten seconds from Edvald Boasson Hagen.