{"id":217106,"date":"2025-10-16T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217106\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:24:07","slug":"watch-kangaroo-dodges-ford-mustang-at-160-mph-in-insane-bathurst-1000-close-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217106\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kangaroo Dodges Ford Mustang At 160 MPH In Insane Bathurst 1000 Close Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crikey, that was a close one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PublishedOctober 15, 2025 3:25 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedOctober 15, 2025 2:45 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/motorsports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Motorsports<\/a> always have a level of danger, and that level of danger-tude goes up when a local wildlife decides to get involved. An Australian Supercars driver learned this firsthand when a kangaroo gave him a scare during the Bathurst 1000 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Bathurst 1000 is one of, if not the, signature races on the Repco Supercars Championship calendar and sees a field of Ford Mustangs and Chevrolet Camaros (USA! USA! USA!) whipping around the legendary Mount Panorama Circuit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sports\/tony-stewart-calls-nhra-faceoff-wife-leah-pruett-lose-lose-situation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TONY STEWART CALLS NHRA FACEOFF WITH WIFE LEAH PRUETT A \u2018LOSE\u2011LOSE SITUATION&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This circuit is just under four miles long and is a challenging combination of long straights, a climb up the namesake Mount Panorama, with some twisty technical sections as drivers traverse the top of the mountain and then climb back down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">However, things got dicey for rookie Kai Allen. As if it wasn&#8217;t already bad enough that he had to contend with rainy conditions, a kangaroo decided that the best time to cross the circuit was just as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Australian&#8217;s<\/a> Mustang was barreling toward it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Crikey. Crikey, indeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Now, I think we can all do the math on this one, but had that kangaroo hesitated for a fraction of a second, it would have been catastrophic for all parties. That poor &#8216;roo would have wound up as a puddle on the side of the track, the consistency of Vegemite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Meanwhile, something that size could have caused serious damage to Allen&#8217;s car or led to a massive crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Despite that close call, Allen and his co-driver, Dale Wood, had a pretty impressive day. After starting 22nd, they overcame an incident that left some bodywork hanging off the back of the car \u2014 effectively creating a parachute and hurting them on some of the circuit&#8217;s long straights \u2014 to finish in 8th.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;The only thing that I didn&#8217;t hit was a little kangaroo that blew straight past the front of my car at 250 (kph, or 160 mph) down Conrod, and I just missed it,&#8221; Allen said, per the Supercars website. &#8220;I owe him a beer, otherwise it would&#8217;ve been race over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Yeah. It would have been race over for Allen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It would&#8217;ve been &#8220;Game of Life&#8221; over for that kangaroo who, fortunatley, lived to hop and kick people while balancing on its tail another day.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crikey, that was a close one&#8230; PublishedOctober 15, 2025 3:25 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedOctober 15, 2025 2:45 PM EDT FacebookTwitterEmailCopy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-217106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}