British rider Dan McLay has won the GP De La Somme race.
The 31st edition of the GP de la Somme took place on a 195.8km course from Dury to Albert and saw Michael Vingerling (Team 3M), Rudy Barbier (Roubaix Lille Métropole), Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energy) and Kévin Reza (FDJ) on the break from the start with Yann Guyot (Armee ) and Jan Petelin (Team Differdange-Losch) joining them.
That move was shut down as another before Denz (Ag2r), Lorrenzo Manzin (FDJ), Maxime Cam (Fortuneo-Vital Concept), Romain Le Roux (Armee), Thomas Boudat (Direct Energie), Julien Antomarchi (Roubaix) and Olivier Chevalier (Wallonie) started a new break.
Their advantage had gone out to three minutes but when Dassonville beat Thevenot and Pineau in the fifth KOM sprint, they were less than a minute clear.
With ten kilometres to go, all the breaks were over and Cofidis started to move up Nacer Bouhanni.
However, up came Dan McLay of Fortuneo Vital Concept and he took the win ahead of Bouhanni and Yannis Yssaad (Armee).
McLay said: I wanted to confirm my ability after my victory in the GP Denain and did some altitude training in Andorra,
"I felt good and saw that I had good legs. We experienced several falls and I also fell. Again my teammates did a great job and I launched my sprint with 200 metres to go and I did it.
"I'm very happy to win and get ahead Nacer Bouhanni and I will go very motivated to the Tour of Belgium. "