The British cycling interest is at an all-time high and that is reflected in the constant growth of the country's pinnacle event, Tour of Britain. This year the race has attracted its strongest line-up ever, and they will be challenge by the hardest route ever seen for the 8-day race. Nairo Quintana and local hero Bradley Wiggins use the race as their final preparation for the world championships while Mark Cavendish leads a strong list of sprinters which includes riders like Elia Viviani, Gerald Ciolek and Sacha Modolo. At 15.00 CEST you can follow the race on CyclingQuotes.com/live.

For some riders, the Tour of Britain is mainly preparation for the world championships but for others it's an important event in its own right. Bradley Wiggins' main objective may be the world time trial championships but the Brit has done nothing to hide that he aims at the overall win in the biggest big race in his home country. He has done recons of the key stages that include a 16km time trial, the well-known, tough stage to Caerphilly and the first ever summit finish. Riders like Dan Martin, Nairo Quintana, Giovanni Visconti, Thomas Löfkvist, Stefano Pirazzi, Francesco Bongiorno, Lucas Euser, Philip Deignan and Sergio Pardilla make sure that he will face hard competition on the climbs while Alex Dowsett who beat him in the long Giro time trial, will challenge him in the race against the clock. And finally, there's great expectation for the Yates brothers who both did well at the recent Tour de l'Avenir and now face the world elite on home soil.

Bradley Wiggins finds himself in a comfortable situation after his time trial win but today and tomorrow he will be put under pressure. Today it is time for the classic stage to Caerphilly which last year had status as queen stage, and while that isn't the case this year, it remains a very hard and selective affair. During the 177,1km, the riders will first pass two category 1 climbs at the midpoint of the stage before it is time for the hectic finale in which the 2,3km category 1 climb Caerphilly Mountain will be passed twice. From the last passage only 4,9km remain and they are almost all downhill. Last year Leopold König and Jonathan Tiernan-Locke arrived at the finish together and while the former took the stage win, the latter took over the leader's jersey. Daniel Martin and Nairo Quintana have shown that they have no intentions of letting Wiggins take a comfortable win and attacks are guaranteed in what is bound to be an exciting finale.

Starting at 15.00 you can follow the stage here.