6 day racing is basically a madison. Danny Clark teamed with Englishman Anthony Doyle to win the
race I saw in Munich. I couldn't find on google as to exactly the amount of time they race, suffice
to say they start around 1pm and race for 7 or 8 hours with breaks in between finishing up around
midnight. There are about a dozen teams, the scoreboard shows who is leading and how many laps
behind them each team is. It gets exciting when the intermediate sprints are on, the Oompah band
(german guys in leiderhosen and huge moustaches..) stir up the crowd and increase the tempo till the
bunch hits the line.
During the breaks the crowd are entertained with feature races such as junior races, exhibition
match sprints (by the best in the world), points races and Danny singing..
Of course the madison style arm throws makes 6 day racing spectacular. The crowd goes wild when the
oldest man in the field (Danny) attacks and laps the field, he is soooo tough! He would win with
panache too. Rather than win and go home in a huff (like LA for the first few years of the Tour), I
heard Danny would take the microphone with the Oompah band and give the crowd a few renditions, real
crooner! Too bad I never saw him do that when I was there
Imagine if LA after receiving his
trophy on the Champs Elysees took a mike and broke into the Pirates of Penzance on the podium!!
They luvved Danny over there.
hippy <
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> "g" <
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> > Saw the number recently, something like 73 wins out of 230+ Six Day races. They lived like dogs,
> > sleeping under boards then racing till midnight the next day..
>
> How does a 6-day race work? Ride as many k's as possible in 6 days or is there more structure to
> it than that?
>
> hippy (I know I could google for this, but it might make for a more interesting thread if I
> don't ;-) )
