Dylan Teuns made another impressive performance in today's hard stage of the Vuelta a Espana when he briefly managed to distance several race favourites, including Bradley Wiggins. However, it all came back together and the youngster admits that it will be hard to hold onto fifth in the final time trial.

Dylan Teuns of the BMC Racing Team finished seventh Saturday at the Friends Life Tour of Britain to remain fifth overall, while teammate Sebastian Lander kept his lead in the sprint classification with a double-stage day of the race to go. Teuns was in a group that arrived at the finish of the 226.5-kilometer stage 80 seconds after the stage winner as – for the second straight day – a rider from the breakaway took the race lead. 

Julien Vermote (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) won the race, but Dylan Van Baarle (Garmin-Sharp) finished third of the three escapees and took the yellow jersey from Alex Dowsett (Movistar Team). Teuns is 36 seconds behind with Sunday's 8.8 km individual time trial in London in the morning and an 88.8-kilometer circuit race in the afternoon.

"Only the time trial can change something," Teuns said. "I will just go full gas and see how it comes out. There are a lot of guys who are just 10 seconds behind me and that is not so much."

Ten riders remain within a minute of the lead, including past race leader Michal Kwiatowski, Vermote's teammate.

After teammates Stephen Cummings, Martin Kohler, Peter Velits and Rick Zabel impressively rode the front to chase the breakaway, Teuns did try to steal back time with an attack on the final climb, which immediately led to a descent to the finish. But after gaining 10 seconds, the BMC Racing Team stagiaire was caught by a chase group of four and eventually 13 others.

"Everything came back because it was a big road and a fast decent," Teuns said. "That was a little bit disappointing."

Lander, who took the lead Wednesday in the sprint classification following his second consecutive day in the breakaway, remains two points ahead of Dowsett.