00:00 The shortest stage in Tour of Britain history, a measly 109.9km from Wrexham to Wrexham.
00:09 Leaving the start line, which would, after a couple of hours of racing, become the finish line in the heart of Wrexham.
00:15 And criss-crossing the Anglo-Welsh border along the way as the race would dip into Cheshire, before crossing the border again and ending in Wrexham itself.
00:24 A peloton shorn of one or two members. Two riders down, just 94 starting the race in the absence of Flanders-Balois' Ward Van Hoof,
00:35 who didn't start after his crash on the run into the finish line in Deansgate yesterday.
00:39 And Jumbo-Visma looking to pick up where they left off after victory on stage one with Olaf Koi, the stage winner on stage one, in the leader's jersey.
00:47 Gouart Van Aert, his lead-out man, would be wearing the points jersey, even though he sits in second place in those standings.
00:54 And before the flag even dropped, there was an incident involving Carlos Rodriguez of the Ineos Grenadiers, their highly rated Spanish GC rider,
01:02 on the brink of signing a long-term new contract with Ineos Grenadiers, coming to grief.
01:07 But getting back on and appearing to be mostly unaffected from that spill.
01:11 After a couple of kilometres delay then, the flag dropped and in the first instance, there was no attempt to get in a breakaway.
01:17 On such a short stage, it was questionable whether the breakaway would have any chance of success at all.
01:22 Eventually then, a trio of riders, which would in time become a quartet of riders, did get away,
01:28 including Finn Crockett of Saint Pirren, Abraham Stockmann of TDT Unibet and Jake Scott of Bolton Equity's Black Spoke.
01:35 Those three riders established a small advantage on the road and then there was a counter-attack from the rider in green here.
01:41 And that was Callum Ormiston, the first time we've seen in this edition of the Tour of Britain a rider from Global Six Cycling getting up the road.
01:49 After a short effort, crossing over a gap that was around about 10 seconds, Ormiston made it to the front of the race
01:56 and those four riders started to hold on to an advantage that only very briefly, at one point in the race, went over a minute.
02:03 Fernando Gaviria came to grief early on, a heavy fall for Fernando Gaviria that would have consequences for him.
02:10 Removing some of the skin from the palm of his hand made bike handling very difficult for the Colombian,
02:14 who already in Manchester had had a torrid day of it, coming in two and a half minutes down on the race winner
02:20 and looking very uncomfortable after that fall. Fernando Gaviria not enjoying his start to the Tour of Britain.
02:26 The various different castles along the Welsh-English border marking the route
02:31 and a quartet of riders who never had much more than around about 35-45 seconds for the majority of this short 109.9 stage.
02:40 One categorised climb and one sprint, but both of those points lay further up the road in the final 20km of racing.
02:48 And it was only a Cat.3 climb at that, the climb to Aiden.
02:51 The main players in the King of the Mountains competition after yesterday, back in the peloton.
02:56 But Jake Scott in the purple of Bolton Equity's Black Spoke, a man who in the past has won the Tour of Britain King of the Mountains competition twice.
