Bretagne Seche Enviroment's Pierrick Fedrigo took victory in one day race in France the 36th Cholet-Pays de Loire
This race which was the third race in the Coupe de France race series saw the riders set out from Cholet on a windy day.
In a race some 208kms long, it took some time for the first real attack to form and when it did twenty one riders got clear and were joined by another nineteen to form a forty strong group.
They left the peloton behind and with a hundred kilometres to go, the peloton let them go and those in this front group started attacking each other.
Cedric Pineau (FDJ), Timothy Dupont (Roubaix) and Julien Duval (Armee), were the first three to go who first got clear and took a lead of just over a minute.
Pierreck Fedrigo of Bretagne Seche Enviroment and Europcar's Thomas Voeckler joined them for the last forty kilometres.
Just before they started on the final 29km finishing circuit, Duval and Dupont were dropped and ten kilometres later, Fedrigo launched an attack. Pineau and Voeckler were dropped and a group of Jon Insausti, Baptiste Planckaert, Antoine Demoitie (Wallonie) and Ignatas Konovalovas (Marseille)
With the chasers getting closer, Fedrigo launched an attack with 20km to go and he quickly distanced Pineau and Voeckler who were both brought back. The Bretagne rider now went into time trial mode while a chase group with Jon Insausti of Murias Taleda, Baptiste Planckaert and Roubaix Lille Metropole, Antoine Demoitie (Wallonie) and Ignatas Konovalovas (Marseille) chased him.
Fedrigo kept a lead of thirty but going into the final two kilometres, his lead had decreasd to eighteen seconds.
Fedrigo, who had been time-trailling gave it every thing he had and took the win in 5.02.11, some twenty one seconds ahead of Jon Insausti who out-sprinted Baptiste Planckaert for second place.
Speaking to Directvelo, Fedrigo, who was delighted to have taken the first ever win for Bretagne Seche Enviroment said: "We were 40 in front. "It's never easy because there are perhaps ten riders who work in such groups. However, we knew that this escape was likely to stay away.
"I spoke with Thomas Voeckler to know what he intended to do in the finale. We always prefer if a French rider wins. I got along well with Thomas to return on three attackers. We had to blow the race apart, making the attacks. He was an allie. Thomas is a rider who is like me, he does not calculate his efforts.
"Today, I perhaps had better legs than my opponents. I managed to exploit it. I thought I was crazy to attack as far from the finish but I enjoyed the victory and being on the podium
"I am someone who likes to raise my arms after a win. In the last two years, I have not had many opportunities to do this, so. I had lost the desire to go for the win. It has quickly returned and today I have taken the time to savour the win which feels good."