Wout Poels of Team Sky has won Stage Four of the Tirreno-Adriatico and moves into the race lead.
A stage of 218kms from Indicatore (Arezzo) to Castelraimondo which featured four climbs saw BMC's Greg Van Avermaet as the new race leader and he led the peloton out on a stage which saw Orica GreenEdge duo Luke Durbridge and Matthew Hayman with a lead of 5.33 after twenty five kilometres.
Ten kilometres later and the peloton had allowed them to extend that lead to 8.18, 8.50 after fifty kilometres and with a hundred kilometres they were still 6.16 clear.
Greg Van Avermaet took a second for a third place in the second sprint to lead Peter Sagan by four points but back on the road, the Orica GreenEdge duo were 5.58 ahead of Nathan Haas, the day after his birthday, who had attacked out of the peloton who were 6.58 behind.
With seventy kilometres to go and Matt Hayman went away and took a twenty second lead over Durbridge.
The pair joined back up and and were 4.49 ahead with 42kms left but the peloton were closing in and twenty kilometres later, Durbridge was caught, leaving Hayman on his own until he was inevitably caught and Visconti, Scarponi and Arredondo went straight on the attack.
Dani Moreno joined them and they stayed away until 10.5kms to go.
Caruso was next to go but Team Sky's Wout Poels persued him and passed him.
Poels was away with four kilometres left. He got his head down and had a lead of seventeen seconds going under the flam rouge which was enough to keep him clear until he reached the finish line in Castelraimondo and took the win in 5.53.38.
Second was Rigoberto Uran who was fourteen seconds down, ahead of Rodriguez, Vuillermoz, Nocentini, Kreuziger, Caruso and Quintana.
The win now puts Poels in the lead going into stage five with a fourteen second margin over Etixx Quick Step's Rigoberto Uran and twenty six seconds ahead of British rider Steve Cummings of MTN Qhubeka.
Speaking about taking over the lead of the race and his stage victory, the Dutchman said to TeamSky.com: “It was a really nice attack and a great way to take the victory. I'm really happy.
"It's awesome to take the victory on a stage like this, and against riders like that, as well as taking the jersey.
"I've worked really hard with the team this winter and also training at altitude with Froomey. I really like this race and I always seem to go well here.