Live updates: Sixth stage of Giro d’Italia from Naples to Naples

Situation unchanged in the lead when there are 100 km to go to the finish: the five fugitives have a 2 minute advantage over Verre and 3’28” over the peloton.

The climb towards the Chiunzi pass begins and it also begins to rain on the five treaders who lead the group on the second category Gpm at an altitude of 650 meters. The first at the top is Gavazzi, the group is five minutes away.

The Giro stops in Pompeii and the first escape attempt arrives: the first to sprint is De Marchi, who gains a hundred meters on the group. Gavazzi, Clark, Quarterman and Delettre follow him: it’s a five-man breakaway and the advantage over the group immediately becomes substantial: over three minutes.

Difficult start for many riders: even before the zero kilometer Niccolò Bonifazio suffers mechanical problems and replaces the rear wheel, then Jonathan Milan also stops due to a puncture.

Remco Evenepoel, one of the favorites for the final victory of the Giro d’Italia, is regularly at the starting line of the sixth stage of the Corsa rosa with start and finish in Naples. The Belgian QuickStep rider was the victim of a double crash yesterday during the stage from Atripalda to Salerno, suffering a strong contusion to his right side which had put his start in doubt. Before leaving, there was also a little curtain for the rainbow jersey, which he started dribbling on stage with a blue-and-white ball, the colors of the newly crowned Napoli champion of Italy.

First Covid case at the Giro d’Italia. The Frenchman of Arkéa-Samsic, Clément Russo, tested positive for the coronavirus on the eve of the sixth stage in Naples and had to abandon the race. The team’s announcement on social channels: «Clément Russo, who tested positive for Covid-19, will not take the start of the 6th stage of the Giro d’Italia. Have a good recovery », the text of the tweet from the Breton team.

As announced on the eve, traffic bans were triggered along all the roads of the route followed by cyclists and also on the roads that cross that route. To oversee the correct functioning of the organizational machine there are 550 municipal police officers with ten crane trucks to remove the prohibited cars.

Opens the pink village to the Plebiscite. There are dozens of Neapolitans already lined up waiting for the start of the stage scheduled for 1pm.

Protest signs to ask for greater safety on the roads of the Amalfi coast were placed during the night by relatives and friends of Nicola Fusco – the driver who died while driving his bus, which crashed into the void – on the hairpin bend where the accident the passage of the Giro d’Italia is expected.

The family members of the victim, recalling that there have been numerous fatal accidents on those roads over the years, believe that the cause of the bus going off the road was the lack of maintenance of the road surface; the poor condition of the roadside barriers would have been another contributing cause of the accident.

Today no school for the students of the municipalities that will be involved in the route of the Giro, the Fourth and the Sixth: the decision was made at the last moment, yesterday, to avoid logistical difficulties in reaching the institutes on the day in which many roads will be closed to traffic and travel will be extremely complex.

Like every year, Rai and Eurosport broadcast the stage of the Giro d’Italia live. It starts on RaiSport Hd from 11.55 to 14, from 14 channel change on Rai 2 until the end of the stage. On Eurosport 1 HD, on the other hand, connection from 12:30 until closing.

From Naples to Naples, a journey of 162 kilometers in a city all colored in blue. After the departure from Piazza del Plebiscito, the pink caravan will move towards the Amalfi coast, circumnavigating Vesuvius and passing the Chiunzi Pass, 2nd category Mountain Grand Prix of 8.3 kilometers at 6.3%. Once you reach Amalfi, you return to Naples via Positano and the Sorrento peninsula, where there is also the 3rd category climb of Picco Sant’Angelo (9 kilometers at 4%). At that point there will be 68 kilometers to go, a path full of ups and downs that will take you back to the finish line in via Caracciolo.

From Naples to Naples, the sixth stage of the Giro d’Italia leaves from Piazza del Plebiscito at 13. The arrival time on the Caracciolo seafront is instead expected between 17 and 17.30 approximately.