After a successful opening night for pair no. 2 – Mark Cavendish and Owain Doull – two of the other headline acts at this year's Six Day London, Elia Viviani and Caleb Ewan, showed what they were capable of on day 2 of the event at London's Lee Valley velodrome.
"When we did the full attack with 20 laps to go, I was thinking, 'No one can follow us,' and I was surprised when Owain did," Viviani said of his Derny win in a press release.
"My sprinter spirit came out in that moment. We tried to jump the last lap, and, in that race, Michel is the man. I just needed to follow," he said of his Derny motorbike pilot Michel Vaarten, who had helped Cavendish to his own Derny victory on the opening night.
But Cavendish and Doull were soon able to take revenge in the night's first Madison Chase, delighting the crowd by burying themselves to take a lap on the rest of the field to win the event.
"You're suffering, suffering, suffering, but when you make a move when you're riding with 'Cav', the crowd just goes up and it lifts you to that next place," Doull said.
"I had a bit of a shocker yesterday," Ewan said, "so I was determined to come on and put on something of a show."
French pair Bryan Coquard and Donavan Grondin retained their overall lead, but are now just three points ahead of Viviani and Consonni, with Cavendish and Doull having moved up to fourth overall, while Ewan and partner Josh Harrison are back in 14th place, but with four nights of racing yet to come.
