With Lars Bak CSC was in the attack again today. "T-Mobile was working hard behind them to catch up, but they were unsuccessful. Luke did the sprint for Martin, but Martin crashed, when another rider got in his way, which caused about 10 other riders to crash as well and Luke continued on his own," said Team CSC's sports director Scott Sunderland after the stage.

"Luke was pretty upset afterwards about not winning, which would have given him the leader's jersey as well. But he's determined to try and conquer the jersey at a later stage," continued Sunderland. He also had good news regarding Martin Pedersen's crash:

"Martin's okay. He's bruised and battered, but nothing serious. He's probably just outside of top-10 in the general classification, so he's in a good position right now too."

Serge Pauwels from Chocolade Jacques-Topsport won the coveted E.ON King of the Mountains jersey after a stage race that involved three climbs including the Porlock Toll Road.   "This is the first time that I have ridden The Tour of Britain and it was great to win the King of the Mountains jersey, which I am really keen to try and keep for the rest of the Tour.  Today was a really hard day but I am looking forward to tomorrow."

Piet Rooijakkers from the Skil Shimano team won the Sprints competition.   

There were six riders that did not finish the race today namely Robbie Hunter, Chris Newton (whose wife has just gone into labour), Gordon McCauley, Michael Wolf and Linus Gerdemann, with Hans Dekker not starting today's race.

The changes in the leader's jersey means that the race is wide open as we head into Stage 3 of the race which starts at Worcester racecourse.  This is one of the shortest stages of the race but is one of the hardest with the rolling hills to Wolverhampton likely to catch riders unaware.