{"id":77514,"date":"2025-10-14T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77514\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:30:10","slug":"supercars-news-bathurst-1000-kangaroo-close-call-at-250km-h-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77514\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercars news: Bathurst 1000 kangaroo close call at 250km\/h revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe scary moment has been revealed. Image: Supercars<\/p>\n

Vision released by Supercars<\/a> has shown just how close the Penrite Ford came to disaster as the kangaroo bounded across the road from the driver\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

Allen jinked slightly to his left in what appeared an instinctive move to miss the wayward \u2019roo, but did not lift the throttle as the frightening moment unfolded at approximately 250km\/h.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old made mention of the incident on the TV broadcast post-race, somewhat bizarrely stating he owed the marsupial a beer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a bit of a target on my back, the car was absolutely destroyed, but we just didn\u2019t give up, kept fighting and fighting,\u201d Allen said of his race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing I didn\u2019t hit was a little kangaroo that blew straight past the front of my car at 250 down Conrod and just missed it. I owe him a beer, otherwise it would have been race over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allen scraped into the Finals Series courtesy of finishing in eighth place and having nearest threat Andre Heimgartner lose a position on the final lap.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Grove Ford driver suffered several bouts of contact during the race, including a major hit from behind courtesy of Brodie Kostecki not long prior to lap 100.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was done, I thought it was race over. I looked at the rearview mirror and half of my car was hanging off the side, it was all destroyed,\u201d said Allen, who was also later hit by Will Brown and Jack Le Brocq.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost a lot of straightline and was just struggling from then on. But like I said, we didn\u2019t give up, we kept fighting, kept digging and just picked them off.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people crashed in front of me, and I kept chipping away. I had to pass one of the cars with two laps to go, then I lost a spot because I made a mistake and then passed him back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe moral of the story is we didn\u2019t stop fighting and we got the result we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact Allen qualified for the Finals added to a fairytale day for Grove Racing, which scored its maiden Bathurst 1000 victory through Matt Payne and Garth Tander.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you said to me at the start of this year that I\u2019m going to be in the 10, I\u2019d tell you you\u2019re dreaming,\u201d said Allen, who shared his Mustang with Dale Wood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just kept chipping away, got all the basics right, and to get in the 10 is unreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll just press on for the rest of the year now, we\u2019ve got nothing to lose, it\u2019s full steam ahead, we\u2019ll see what we can do in the Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scary moment has been revealed. Image: Supercars Vision released by Supercars has shown just how close the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28872,60311,111,139,69,1058,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-77514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-grove-racing","9":"tag-kai-allen","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-slot1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}