Peter Kennaugh described his victory on the second stage of the Jayco Sun Herald Tour as awesome.
Kennaugh took the race just ahead of team mate Chris Froome after the pair broke just after the final climb and the Manxman, who had now two wins to his name, said to the Team Sky Press Office: "It's awesome, "We had a strategy, we stuck to it and it worked."
"Obviously the race last weekend gave me a quite a bit of confidence going into today. We had a good plan for the stage which worked out absolutely perfectly. We wanted to make it hard going onto that last climb and then for Froomey to have a go. I was just to follow wheels, judge the situation and jump across if I could.
"Massive thanks to the team and especially to Froomey, as once I got across to him I pretty much sat on his wheel the whole way up the climb. Then once we went over I was able to do some good turns into the finish.
"The next few stages are probably sprint days and we've got a strong team. Obviously GreenEdge want to keep it together the Caleb Ewan - so then it should just be down to the last day, and I think that should suit me more than today."
Chris Froome was also delighted and he said: "It was a good day for us out there. "That climb wasn't super selective on paper and I think a lot of people were expecting it to come back together for a bunch sprint. We don't really have any sprinters here so we thought let's just give it everything we've got. The guys did a fantastic job setting it up. They made it as hard as possible on the early slopes and then I took over.
"It was a really nice feeling to be able to give something back to Pete Kennaugh. The amount of times he's emptied himself for me out on the road. He's been part of both my Tour de France victories and it's nice to be able to do something for him now.
"We have the jersey and we're going to try and protect that now. Pete's in great shape. He won Cadel's race just a few days ago and we'll try to keep the jersey on his shoulders now. That's the first big hit out I've had this season and I'm really happy with my feelings."