Australia’s sporting royalty and their glammed-up companions flocked to the Melbourne Grand Prix’s Glamor on the Grid cocktail occasion on Wednesday evening.
Previous and current AFL stars, an Aussie tennis champion, and a Melbourne Cup successful jockey mingled with high-profile entertainers and high-powered enterprise celebrities on the star-studded occasion at Albert Park.
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Outgoing Australian Grand Prix Company chief govt Andrew Westacott claimed the occasion was now the “most sought-after perform of its sort related to any sporting occasion in Australia”.
“They are going to stroll down Pit Lane, they’ll stroll previous the garages, they’ll have the chance to be within the Components 1 paddock – which is a really uncommon incidence except you are a Components One group member – after which they will have an exquisite night,” he advised The Age forward of the occasion.
2015 Melbourne Cup winner Michelle Payne was one of many 700-strong friends who rocked the pink carpet, together with doubles champion Thanasi Kokkinakis and several other Collingwood stars.
Kokkinakis discovered his technique to Albert Park having simply returned to Australia after an early exit from the Miami Open.
Many present AFL gamers made time to attend the occasion, regardless of Spherical three starting on Thursday evening.
Jack Crisp and spouse Mikayla, his teammate Josh Daicos and girlfriend Annalize Dalins, in addition to American Pie Mason Cox had been simply a number of the large names from Collingwood who had been there.
So was Essendon skipper Zach Merrett and companion Alexandra Bourne, and Richmond’s three-time premiership star Daniel Rioli and his companion Paris Lawrence. Lawrence later featured as one of many night’s DJs.
The companions of AFL stars shone vibrant in their very own proper, with Bec Judd – spouse of former AFL legend Chris Judd – in attendance, in addition to retired Carlton skipper Marc Murphy and spouse Jesse.
The household of sporting royalty additionally flocked the coveted F1 ‘pop-up grid’, with Mia Fevola, daughter of former Carlton star and breakfast radio host Brendan Fevola attending, in addition to Shane Warne’s eldest daughter, Brooke Warne.
Each younger ladies have amassed giant social media followings lately.
Channel 7 reporters Abbey Holmes and Grace Hayden shone on the evening – the AFL and horse racing commentators respectively mixing with their fellow sporting colleagues.
Holmes is about to look on Channel 7’s massive reality TV show SAS Australia later this yr.
