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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKai Allen passed Broc Feeney around the outside of Turn 1 after a Safety Car restart during Race 3 of the Sydney 500.<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKai Allen passed Broc Feeney around the outside of Turn 1 after a Safety Car restart during Race 3 of the Sydney 500.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old pulled off a stunning outside pass on Broc Feeney at the high-speed Turn 1 to take the lead of the race.<\/p>\n
It occurred immediately after a Safety Car restart as rain fell while all the front-runners were on slick tyres.<\/p>\n
The sophomore Supercars driver said similar conditions at the end of last year\u2019s Sunday Sydney race gave him the confidence to attempt the move.<\/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 the inside,\u201d Allen told the broadcast of the moment.<\/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 in this same scenario, so I just tightened the seatbelts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pretty comfortable. I knew I had it when I had a good run on him, 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<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for Allen, he handed the lead back to Feeney when he ran wide at Turn 8 on the same lap \u2013 a mistake he said he will \u201cnever forget until the day I die\u201d.<\/p>\n
It was not to be anyway, as the #26 Penrite Mustang suffered a steering failure while sitting second to Feeney eight laps from the finish.<\/p>\n
The team put the failure down to side-to-side contact between the two warring Ford drivers on the first lap of the race, where Feeney held out his fellow front-row starter.<\/p>\n
Race winner Feeney later praised Allen\u2019s \u201cballsy move\u201d, as well as the general nature of the racing in the category.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a better racing category in the world right now in terms of door-to-door, hard racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see a lot of F1 drivers complaining that they can\u2019t pass\u2026 and then you\u2019ve got us, a couple of young kids going side-by-side on slicks in the wet at Turn 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a ballsy move from him and he pulled it off. We had a lot of fun, we were banging doors for a while there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d make a mistake, he got me, then he made a mistake and I got him back, and then he was all over me before he had the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen sits 13th in the standings after round one, while his teammate Matt Payne is equal with Feeney at the top of the order.<\/p>\n
Grove Racing is second in the teams\u2019 championship, sandwiched between fellow Ford squads Tickford Racing and Triple Eight.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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