Just one night to go, and many hopes for German stars Kappes and Beikirch to claim victory for the second time this season. Despite both the "Alpen-express" and Italy's Villa and Martinello achieved a 200-point score and gained a bonus lap, the Germans retained the lead as they have got many more points than their closest rivals. A lead that could prove wide enough for them to take the title on Wednesday night.

Bad news for Scott McGrory and Matt Gilmore instead. Their score is excellent, but after the above mentioned pairs gained a lap on Tuesday, the Aussie-Belgian duo is one more time out of the podium places, although they could get back into the top 3 overall in the final session. Crowd favourite Dörich and fellow German Jens Lehmann move dup to fifth place, while Slippens and Stam lost all their chances to repeat victory after Bremen, even though they are close to gain bonus lap. As for Marty Nothstein and Adriano Baffi, the Italian-American team is back into spot number ten, nine laps down on GC. Switzerland's Franco Marvulli and Alexander Aeschbach have a great score, even better than Villa and Martinello's but after losing 15 laps in 5 days they are light years behind the podium places.

Six Days of Stuggart - Overall Standings after Night 5

1. Andreas Kappes – Andreas Beikirch (GER) - 268 points

2. Bruno Risi – Kurt Betschart (SWI) - 229 points

3. Silvio Martinello – Marco Villa (ITA) - 217 points

at 1 lap

4. Scott McGrory (AUS) – Matthew Gilmore (BEL) - 264 points

5. Gerd Dörich – Jens Lehmann (GER) - 212 points

at 2 laps

6. Danny Stam – Robert Slippens (HOL) - 194 points

7. Stefan Steinweg – Erik Weispfennig (GER) - 103 points

at 6 laps

8. Jimmi Madsen – Michael Sandstød (DEN) - 184 points

at 8 laps

9. Lars Teutenberg – Frank Kowatschitsch (GER) - 89 points

at 9 laps

10. Adriano Baffi (ITA) – Marty Nothstein (USA) - 194 points

at 14 laps

11. Christian Lademann – Christian Bach (GER) - 93 points

at 15 laps

12. Franco Marvulli – Alexander Aeschbach (SWI) - 227 points

at 16 laps

13. Guido Fulst – Andreas Müller (GER) - 48 points

at 26 laps

14. Martin Liska – Jozef Zabka (SVK) - 28 points

at 28 laps

15. Ronny Lauke – Jan Ott (GER) - 61 points

at 31 laps

16. Stefan Löffler – Daniel Palicki (GER) - 28 points

17. Franz Stocher – Roland Garber (AUT) - 20 points

at 60 laps

18. Dirk Ronellenfitsch (GER) – Patrick Fäh (SWI) - 23 points