Kenny De Ketele and Moreno De Pauw of Belgium (235 points), and Alberto Torres and Sebastien Mora Vedri (230 points) of Spain also lead the Australian's on points but are a lap down. At the busy top end of the standing🍬s, Yoeri Havik and Roy Pieters of Netherlands are second with 208🌼 points an equal on laps.
Speaking after racing had wraಌpped up, the experienced track rider Cavendish admitted that he and Kennaugh are not yet talking of winning th🐓e overall despite their position.
"It's difficult to try and win here wi💮th the best Madison and Six Day riders," said Cavendish, who was second with Bradley Wiggins as his partner last year. "It's Pete's first Six Day so we can't really think about the overall we just have to think about trying to win what we want to win."
Although Kennaugh is adapting to the Six Day racing, the 28-year-old won team pursuit gold on the same velodrome at the 2♕012 Olympic Games and comes from a track background.
"Pete was great today, he realꦗly gritted his teeth in that last race and that's what you need to be a Six Day rider," Cavendish added of his teammate who he also rode alongside at Team Sky.
Kenna🌳ugh added he is starting to feel the effects of the frenetic racing but has been boosted by the madison ♓win.
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"It's been a long night to be honest, I was average in the ♋first chase then I really struggled in the points race — I just didn't feel on top of my game at all," said Kennaugh.
"It's the third night so I was starting to wonder if I was going to get a win, Cav𓃲's picke🐟d one up on his own in the first two nights and I'm still trying to get to grips with it all but it feels amazing to get that first win."
Day four of the event starts with a madison chase, and then followed by a two-lap madison TT for the Six Day riders. A 4ღ0-lap derny, 10km scratch, a second 40-lap denry, and then a second madison chase will conclude the day's racing.
