Six Days of Munich

Germany, November 4 - 9, 1999

Night 5 - November 8th

After the penultimate night of racing, Martinello and Kappes now have a thirteen point lead on Risi and Betschart in the six days of Munich. Third pair Bartko and McGrory are a lap behind, but when they pass 300, as the other two top pairs have done, there's a bonus lap and they are on again.

It seems like the leaders could expect lap gaining attacks from both opponents in the final day chases. The first chase of the fifth evening was a narrow fight between Martinello and Risi, with the latter winning this time. The later 30 minutes chase went, a bit surprisingly, to Madsen and Pollack, who are eighth in the overall due to Pollack's stomach problems at the beginning. But in a season with several races cancelled, it's important to make a good show for contracts to the later races.

Standings in Munich after 5 nights:
1 Silvio Martinello (Ita) - Andreas Kappes (Ger)    321 pts
2 Bruno Risi (Swi) - Kurt Betschart (Swi)           308

One lap behind:
3 Robert Bartko (Ger) - Scott McGrory (Aus)         292

Four laps behind:
4 Adriano Baffi (Ita) - Andrea Collinelli (Ita)     222
5 Andreas Beikirch (Ger) - Marco Villa (Ita)        206

Five laps behind:
6 Etienne Dewilde (Bel) - Matthew Gilmore (Bel)     201

Eleven laps behind:
7 Jimmi Madsen (Den) - Olaf Pollack (Ger)           152
8 Michael Sandstød (Den) - Tayeb Braikia (Den)      112

Fourteen laps behind:
9 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) - Erik Weisspfennig (Ger)   132

Sixteen laps behind:
10 Frank Corvers (Bel) - Lorenzo Lapage (Bel)       124

Twenty six laps behind:
11 Gerd Dörich (Ger) - Mario Vonhof (Ger)           101

Twenty seven laps behind:
12 Jens Lehmann (Ger) - Frank Kowatschitsch (Ger)    98
13 Juan Llaneras (Spa) - Isaac Galvez (Spa)          87

Twenty eight laps behind:
14 Lars Teutenberg (Ger) - Ronny Lauke (Ger)         71

Thirty one laps behind:
15 Christian Weber (Swi) - Franco Marvuli (Swi)      92

German Jens Fiedler will win the sprinter's competition, but this time without any French opposition which might explain his superiority in Munich.

Standings after 5 nights:

1. Jens Fiedler (Ger)       56 match points
2. Eyk Pokorny (Ger)        27
3. Anars Kiksis (Lat)       15

In the amateurs' competition, Pommereau and Sassone strengthened their lead over British pair of Wiggins and Epple. Fat Nick, maintainer of an excellent website on track racing reports that Wiggins is just 18, having won a junior world pursuit title and is the current British Madison champion. His father, Gary Wiggins won the Munich Six in 1985 with British six day legend, Tony Doyle.

Amateurs after five nights:

1 Pommereau - Sassone (Fra)       98 pts
2 Wiggins - Epple (Gbr)           88
3 Palicki - Riesenbeck (Ger)      62
4 Fäh - Pfister (Swi)             61
5 Pomarico - Kalfack (Ger)        58
6 Filipowicz - Funder (Den)       42
7 De Duytsche - Vermeersch (Bel)  38