The penultimate stage of the 2023 Tour of Britain was in the gorgeous county of Gloucestershire. Starting in the town of Tewkesbury, the riders tackled the hardest stage of the race so far with over 10 climbs, just two were categorised. But Saint Piran showed, once again, that they can mix it with the absolute best.

First it was Alex Richardson who managed to get into a strong break that took a very long time to form after the early climbs of the day. All was going swimmingly until he suddenly had a mechanical. He had to seek assistance from the team car and had to spend vital energy on getting back to the front.

On the final KoM of the day, Alex was unfortunately distanced with the racing really kicking off behind in the peloton with the GC riders getting involved for the first time. Alex was eventually caught but the action didn't end for Saint Piran as Zeb Kyffin got himself into the second group on the road.

Zeb's group was dragged across to the leaders including Wout Van Aert thanks to Bora-Hansgrohe and Uno-X who were working for Danny van Poppel and Rasmus Tiller respectively.

Once they dragged the leaders back, more attacks started to flow with Zeb taking a couple of turns before following a move himself with Mark Donovan and defending champion, Gonzalo Serrano.

Van Aert himself then launched solo. This looked like the killer move. But Bora-Hansgrohe and Uno-X had other ideas. Catching the leader of the race in the final kilometre.

Zeb sat in the wheels and followed brilliantly to look for the best placing possible and to not lose time on GC. In the sprint, the stage was won by Tiller and Zeb took a fantastic 7th place. The only UCI Continental rider in the front group.

That places Zeb in 9th place on GC just 3" behind Van Aert and on the same time as everyone else in the top 10. A massive day coming tomorrow for the 25 year old with two laps of Caerphilly Mountain on the menu to finish off the race.

Zeb spared a few words after the stage: "With 10km to go there was the final climb which was about just over a kilometre. I think we had a group of 40 riders with Jack (Rootkin-Gray), Finn (Crockett), Alex and me in it. It exploded up there with Van Aert and some of the Ineos guys at the front. I just kept following and following and following and jumped across a gap.

"I managed to get into that front selection of around 10. Recover on the downhill. Then the attacks came to jump across to the leaders with Van Aert in it and I jumped across with that. I was in the front five with around 3km to go. It was pretty clear that Uno-X wanted to win the stage. They had two guys leading out Tiller. I just sat there waiting. Maybe I should've attacked but I thought I'd just hold on and see what happens. I got 7th on the stage and 9th on GC. I'm glad I didn't give up."

Playing with the big boys at the Tour of Britain in the fight for stage and GC