Hello and welcome to live coverage of stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia - an unpredictable 186km ride from Foligno to Arezzo, which includes a 6km dirt-track climb near the finish.

There's no denying that the day belonged to this man, Gianluca Brambilla.

And the new GC - with Brambilla on top of the pack and Dumoulin out of the top ten...

Here's confirmation of the stage result...

And here's the moment Gianluca Brambilla won today's stage...

Another big group arrives, led by Diego Ulissi. And still no Dumoulin... and here he comes - he's 2:50 down and so lost 50-odd seconds to his GC rivals.

Montaguti takes second at about 1:10 before the lives of Moser, Venter and De Marchi come home... and then Valverde leads the favourites over at about 1:40 and Zakarin shortly after. So Brambilla will be in pink!

Brambilla knew that pink is a possibility because he drove right to the line before celebrating... We'll find out soon, but he looks to have done it...

Brambilla celebrates his first Grand Tour stage win and it's a third this year for Etixx-QuickStep!

Under the flamme rouge goes Brambilla and he starts that series of ramps to the line...

It looks like Brambilla will win this stage but it's whether or not he can get the pink jersey. He'll lose time on the final rise to Arezzo, although gain 10 second in the bonus at the finish. Touch and go. He'll need to finish about 1:20 ahead of Zakarin.

Movistar continue to drive the pace in this group of favourites - they have three men there now because Rojas has been caught.

Nibali's trying to get others to lend a hand, but the likes of Zakarin and Pozzovivo are doing nothing, ditto Majka and Uran.

Brambilla passes through the 5km to go banner and he has completed this descent. He has about 45 seconds on Montaguti now.

It looks like Dumoulin has had a helping hand by Trentin on the descent, the Italian patting the Dutchman on the back as is to give him a boost. Either that or he was snapping out at him, which would seem unlikely.

Now Nibali comes forward on this descent, putting the others under pressure. Brambilla still leads the stage, with Montaguti in pursuit. He has 1:55 on the Nibali group and 3:20 on Dumoulin.

Kruijswijk and Chaves take it up ahead of Valverde. Zakarin has been very canny - he's not doing any work and he's a very solid time triallist. If the Russian's not in pink tonight he could well be tomorrow.

Valverde has some words with his fellow escapees, perhaps imploring them to help out a little. It's in all their interests to further distance Dumoulin, who is currently 1:30 behind his GC rivals.

Brambilla locks up the rear wheel and skids on a tight left-hander. But he saves it despite the scare.

A life line for Dumoulin - he has caught Nikias Arndt his Giant-Alpecin team-mate, who was in that earlier break.

Brambilla has got over a little uphill lip which breaks up the descent. Meanwhile, it's Kruijswijk who leads the chase in the chasing pack - until Amador and Valverde come through for Movistar.