Hello and welcome to live coverage of the 116th edition of Paris-Roubaix - a brutal 257km slog over the cobblestones of northern France. They don't call it the Hell of the North for nothing...

Taylor Phinney is in the mix for EF-Drapac as the main pack close in on reeling in both the Stybar group and the remnants of the early break. Daniel Oss is now riding tempo for Bora.

Tony Martin accelerates and Sagan has it covered. They lead the chase coming out of the Sars-et-Rosieres section, but Mads Pedersen appears to have been dropped. Stybar is back in time trial mode, giving his hands a rest, with Soler in his wheel. A quartet around Vandenbergh and John Degenkolb - is in pursuit, but it looks like they will be caught by the main pack soon.

It looks like Heinrich Haussler of Bahrain Merida is now leading the main pack. Stybar is 45 seconds down on the leaders and 20 seconds ahead of the main pack.

MArc Soler has been dropped by the leaders and just passed by Stybar on sector 15 at Tilloy - Sars-et-Rosieres, another four-star sector. The four leaders - Bystrom, Wallays, Dillier and Smukulis - have 1:10 over the main pack. Soler, to be fair, has managed to dig in and hold Sytbar's back wheel.

Trek and Lotto have send a man clear in pursuit of Vandenbergh and Stybar. Lotto still have Wallays leading the tempo on the front of the break 1:15 up the road. Marcus Burghardt leads the chase for teammate Sagan, in third wheel.

QuickStep clearly sticking to a plan here as Stybar attacks the moment Gilbert is reeled in. The Czech national champion time trials clear with an Ag2R-La Mondiale rider in pursuit. He has about 20 seconds on the pack as he hits sector 16 at Warlaing. And the rider in pursuit is former Quick-Step rider Vandenbergh, who has the Strava record on this current segment...

The Gilbert-Politt-Soupe-Teunissen group have been joined by a BMC rider and a Delko Marseille rider - but they're now reabsorbed into the pack as Zdenek Stybar takes up the slack for QuickStep.

Kristoff is back in the main back, by the way, alongside the likes of Stybar and Oss. They're quite gar back, though, as Ian Stannard returns to the front to set a fast tempo. The gaps are coming down and the Gilbert group will soon be caught by the main pack.

More problems for Arnaud Demare, who is off the back of the main pack again - either after another mechanical or simply with bad legs. To be fair, the hole bunch has been blown apart on this sector - it's strung out and there are some very weary limbs out there.

Trek-Segafredo have both Degenkolb and Stuyven now on the front of the pack as they close in on Lotto Soudal's Jens Debusshere - I think - who had a little dig off the front.

The five leaders hit the 3.7km sector 17 of Hornaing with a gap of 1:40 to play with. An incredible ride so far from young Soler, the Spanish climber who won Paris-Nice in March and is only making his first appearance on the cobbles. Further back, Gilbert, Polit and Teunnissen have caught Soupe, Thomsen and teammates Robeet and Duquennoy.

Polit has joined Gilbert and Teunissen - and behind, there's an attack by Wout van Aert. Luke Rowe has it covered, with Vanmarcke and some of the QuickSteppers there. The gap for the nine leaders is 1:55. I say nine - they were nine, but they may be doen to five now: Bystrom, Wallays, Dillier, Smukulis and Soler.

Could this be the winning move? Gilbert has gone BIG and LONG but he's building up a gap with Teunissen, with Polit struggling to close it down and the main pack being led by Pedersen 25 seconds back.

The pace in the pack appears to have slowed as Nils Polit (Katusha) rides in lone pursuit of Gilbert and Teunissen. The leaders have just completed sector 18 at Wallers, which the pack hits right now. Past the iconic Pont Gibus go the two chasers with a gap of 10 seconds on Polit and 20 seconds on the pack.

Gilbert and Teunissen have 10 seconds with a number of riders trying to bridge over - including Mads Pedersen, runner-up last week in Flanders.

Yes, it's Mike Teunissen and Philippe Gilbert who have opened up a small gap over the other big favourites. Meanwhile, the break has reformed after splitting up on the Arenberg. They have 2:08 over the pack as Tony Martin leads the chase.

Sieberg leads the main pack off the Arenberg, trailing that two-man move by about 15 seconds. Bora have Sagan, Oss and Burghardt there.

Sunweb and Quick-Step have riders going clear - it is Teunissen and Gilbert?

Team Sky's Dylan Van Baarle has been dropped on the Arenberg, while Arnaud Demare is struggling a little too. Meanwhile, the four leaders - which includes Dillier and Soler - have opened up a gap over the other escapees.

Peter Sagan is right on the front with team-mate Marcus Burghardt as the pack hits the Arenberg. Sep Vanmarcke is right there too, as is Seiberg.

The break has split into two with four leades edging away from the five others. Meanwhile, the bunch of favourites behind is down to just 50-odd riders.