A record amount of 79 lady drivers from all around the country competed recently in hot and sunny conditions at Australia’s biggest women’s karting event the 2026 Pink Plate at the Albury-Wodonga Kart Club January 23 to 25.
Like pervious years the event was supporting Breast Cancer Network of Australia (BCNA) by raising donations and awareness for the organisation.
Each year the event acknowledges who were the 2 highest fundraisers and this year the “Princess” of fundraising was Madysen Fleming from Wagga Kart Club NSW and the “Queen” of fundraising was Lucinda Thomas from Albury-Wodonga Kart Club Victoria, well done to everyone who was raising funds, donated or contributed to this years event.
The club put on dinner at the local Wodonga RSL on the Saturday along with the raffle sponsors $300 worth of gift vouchers from DPE Kart Superstore, Tools from Total Tools Wodonga, Ez Jug Combo from Revolution Racegear, gift card from Bunnings, car care kit from Supercheap Auto Wodonga, GNT Racewear donating $30 from every set of special Pink Plate gloves sold with proceeds going to the fundraising effort.
With the extreme heat of 40+ predicated for Sunday the officials decided to cut back the number of laps of racing with many of the finals going right down to the line to crown each classes champions.
Thank you to TMT Custom Design and Creative 48 for providing this years trophies, Kartbay.com.au for their complimentary Pink Plate balaclavas, Vision Screenprinting for the Pink Plate shirts, banner and backdrop around the circuit and St George Kart Centre, Patrizicorse and Karting Australia for providing tyres for the random tyre draw, along with Chloe Potter from Kartstars Design for providing helmet design vouchers for cadet, junior and senior sportsmanship.
It was a fantastic effort by all of the drivers, putting on some great close and clean racing across the weekend, well done to everyone at the event and the club for pulling through in the heat, all of the race officials and volunteers for doing a fantastic job as always, all of the class sponsors for sponsoring each class and everyone who raised some funds for a great cause.
The Albury-Wodonga Kart Club and Karting Victoria / Karting Australia hopes to continue the momentum into next year and continue to grow the event and hopefully set yet another entry record, so we invite all lady and girl racers to get involved and be apart of it if they can in 2027.
A brief write up of each class is below, along with podium placegetters or see speedhive for the full results.
KA3 Junior Heavy – Scarlett Stevens would turn pole position into the 1st of her 2 Pink Plate victories for the weekend ahead of Zoe Vuichoud 2nd and Elenah Rankin 3rd with Western Australian Tayla Trott just missing out on a podium in 4th
Cadet 12 – Alana Gurney would win a record 3rd Pink Plate (since the Albury club has held it) ahead of Emily-Grace Hamer 2nd and 2 time Cadet 9 winner of the Pink Plate Gemma Phillips
TAG Restricted Light – Madi Bickerton was pushed all the way by Western Australian and polesitter Chloe Terrell with Madi winning her 2nd Pink Plate in a row after winning in the class last year, Chloe Terrell 2nd and August Soward 3rd
TAG Light – Super 2 racer Elly Morrow would take victory ahead of last years Junior Heavy Pink Plate winner Mia Mifsud 2nd with polesitter Grace Riddell in 3rd
KA3 Junior Light – Scarlett Stevens would take her 2nd win of the event pushed all the way by South Australian Scarlett Pittam, with Victorian Erin Phillips on the podium in 3rd
Ladies Masters – Newcomers to the sport Albury’s own Alli Pink would take the win ahead of fellow Albury racer Mel Williamson with the organiser of the event Albury’s Sheree Muller doing double duty stepping into the drivers seat for the 1st time coming home in 3rd
Cadet 9 – Western Australian Makayla Draper would take the win edging out polesitter Maddie Tresillian 2nd with Iris Nisi 3rd and Mildura’s Audrey Rogers not far away in 4th
KA3 Senior Light – The biggest field of the weekend 18 drivers were competing in KA3 Senior Light with some great close battles at the front, South Australian Jess Fortanier would come through to claim her maiden Pink Plate victory ahead of Chloe Potter who was right on her tail but unlucky suffered a dropdown penalty and relegated to 4th, with Ellow Morrow 2nd and Lily Sugden in 3rd
KA3 Senior Medium – Ella Dealy would win her 2nd Pink Plate in 2 years after winning KA3 Senior Medium ahead of Holly Buchanan
TAG Restricted Medium – Tasmanian Renee Hinds would win her 3rd Pink Plate after victories in 2015 at Lithgow and at Albury in 2023, ahead of last years winner Albury’s Katilyn Hawkins in 2nd
Podium placegetters are listed below or see speedhive for the full results https://speedhive.mylaps.com/events/3335972
KA3 Junior Heavy – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Scarlett Stevens
2nd Zoe Vuichoud
3rd Elenah Rankin
Cadet 12 – sponsored by GNT Racewear
1st Alana Gurney
2nd Emily-Grace Hamer
3rd Gemma Phillips
TAG Restricted Light – sponsored by kartbay.com.au
1st Madi Bickerton
2nd Chloe Terrell
3rd August Soward
TAG Light – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Elly Morrow
2nd Mia Mifsud
3rd Grace Riddell
KA3 Junior Light – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Scarlett Stevens
2nd Scarlett Pittam
3rd Erin Phillips
Ladies Masters – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Alli Pink
2nd Mel Williamson
3rd Sheree Muller
Cadet 9 – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Makayla Draper
2nd Maddie Tresillian
3rd Iris Nisi
KA3 Senior Light – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Jess Fortanier
2nd Elly Morrow
3rd Lily Sugden
KA3 Senior Medium – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Ella Dealy
2nd Holly Buchanan
3rd Renee Hinds
KA3 Senior Medium – sponsored by Priceline Pharmacy Albury
1st Ella Dealy
2nd 57 Holly Buchanan
TAG Restricted Medium – sponsored by King Of The Road Truck Wash
1st Renee Hinds
2nd Katilyn Hawkins
We look forward to seeing everyone at next years 2027 event!
See more from the event from the photographers below or Albury-Wodonga Kart Club facebook page
