{"id":496599,"date":"2026-02-22T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496599\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:41:21","slug":"the-sydney-error-allen-will-never-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/496599\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sydney error Allen will \u2018never forget\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

KAI Allen<\/a> can now say he has genuinely led a Supercars Championship race \u2013 even if he wasn\u2019t destined to win it.<\/p>\n

It began when the lights went out at the start of the race, when the Grove Racing sophomore jumped polesitter Broc Feeney<\/a> and banged wheels with him down the straight, through Turn 1 and Turn 2.<\/p>\n

It continued on a mid-race Safety Car restart in heavy rain when, on slick tyres, he passed Feeney around the outside of Turn 1 to take over the lead.<\/p>\n

REPORT & RESULTS: Allen heartbreak as Feeney wins Sydney 500 thriller<\/a><\/p>\n

The #26 Penrite Mustang led the field for three-quarters of a lap \u2013 and then it all went wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I really had him and then I made a mistake into Turn 8 which I will never forget until the day I die,\u201d Allen told Kayo Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could\u2019ve had him, but at the same time Broc ran a faultless race.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Allen would know; he was glued to the back of the #88 Mustang for the rest of the race \u2026 until a steering failure with six laps to go sent him to the garage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys are saying it could\u2019ve been (from) a bit of contact, but at the end of the day I don\u2019t think I had too big a contact with Broc,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was just a stressed part; a fluke, an accident. That\u2019s racing unfortunately.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was walking back from the podium, I found this little thing laying on the ground. I can probably put it in a box as a memory of what could\u2019ve been.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Team owner Stephen Grove chats with Allen under the podium.<\/p>\n

Allen also boxed up yet another moment that establishes his credentials as a genuine contender among Supercars\u2019 youth movement.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s multiple podiums were capped by an unexpected run to the Grand Final, netting a top-four championship finish in his rookie season.<\/p>\n

Now, with his move on Feeney, Allen has demonstrated he\u2019s ready to fight against the best for race wins.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really cool,\u201d Allen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a great restart and put a lot of pressure on Broc. I had a good run on him and I knew he was going to block to the inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause it was drizzling, I knew the race line at Turn 1 was going to be very slippery because of last year when it rained so I just tightened the seatbelts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was pretty comfortable. I knew I had it when I had the run on him and bombed it into Turn 1 and judged the gap, got on the grippy stuff right around the outside of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a credit to him; he could\u2019ve been an absolute dog and just pushed me straight off the track, but Broc being Broc, we had good hard racing and put on a good spectacle for the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KAI Allen can now say he has genuinely led a Supercars Championship race \u2013 even if he wasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-496599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496599","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=496599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}