Nobody electrified racing like Niel Allen. From arriving at AARC Club meetings in an E-type coupe to when his McLaren M10B F5000 failed under him when he was streaking away with the race which would have won him the 1971 Tasman Cup series.
Niel had no time to waste. A property developer in his mid-20s, he could afford to indulge in racing and soon bought the competition Lotus Elan Leo Geoghegan had raced. But when it was damaged at his first meeting and couldn’t be repaired for a subsequent Warwick Farm he bought another Elan which Bob
