Romain Grégoire rockets to victory at the Tour of Britain

Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) is the new leader of the Tour of Britain after he won the uphill finish on stage 4 at Burton Dassett Hills park. The Frenchman came home ahead of Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor) and Edoardo Zambanini (Bahrain - Victorious) after a finale marked by aggression from Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep).

Stage 4 of the 2025 Lloyds Bank Tour of Britain was a 186.4 kilometre stage around Warwickshire, beginning in Atherstone and finishing in the Burton Dassett Hills country park.

Immediately from the off of stage 4, a similar theme emerged from the previous three stages as the breakaway of the day formed with relative ease with 4 riders going clear by up to a gap of 5 minutes.

The group of 4 consisted of two riders who had already been in the breakaway's in the 2025 edition, Victor Vercouillie (Flanders Baloise) and Joshua Golliker (British national team) as well as recent WorldTour winner, Rory Townsend (Q36.5) and Cedric Beullens (Lotto)

Across the middle portion of the stage, a number of teams sent their riders to the front of the peloton in order to slash the advantage of the four ahead as the riders had to deal with 6 short, sharp and steep classified climbs in Warwickshire.

The stage seriously lit up with 24.5 kilometres to go with the first ascent of the ramped finish as Remco Evenepoel blasted off with three riders forming a strong group. Andrew August (Ineos), Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates -XRG) and Bauke Mollema (Lidl-Trek) joined Evenepoel, but their advantage was just 20 seconds over the chasing peloton.

Back behind in the peloton, Bahrain Victorious were the predominant team working to bring the group of attackers back as the four riders bridged across to the break of the day with 18 kilometres to go.

There was bad news for the attackers just before the second ascent of the final climb, as it all came back together yet again, with a group of around 60-70 riders forming the peloton.

With no daring attackers on the penultimate ascent, it was set for reduced uphill effort, but Andreas Leknessund (Uno-X Mobility) dared to dream with an audacious attack in the last 10 kilometres which was brought back in the last 5 kilometres.

It was all set for a thrilling and nail-biting ending on the same climb which Mathieu van der Poel conquered in the 2019 edition.

Samuel Watson initially set the tempo on the run in, which Grégoire used to his advantage, using it as a launch pad to set a monstrous kick to the line. 

Grégoire's attack proved too much for Alaphilippe to overcome with the former double world champion finishing marginally behind in second, Edoardo Zambanini (Bahrain - Victorious) came home in third as Grégoire moves into the race lead with two stages remaining.