Adam Blythe of Tinkoff said that he wanted it as he beat Mark Cavendish in a sprint to become the new British Road Race champion.
Blythe, who will wear his new British Jersey at the RideLondon-Surrey Classic Race at the end of July for the first time said: “I wanted that one, I was thinking about it all day, trying to be in the right moves.
“With a couple of laps to go I thought we might hold off the chasers, it was hanging around 20 seconds and I did a few hard turns, but it came back together and I just gambled it’d be a sprint and luckily I got round Cav.”
“Normally when Cav wins there are leadout trains, but today was a hard day," he said. "We were marked out all day, we weren’t really given any room, always on the pedals all day, I’ve had one of the highest powers I’ve had all year.”