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ST.ELMO'S FIRE
Road & Track
|December 2024/January 2025
AN INDIANAPOLIS RESTAURANT WITH FACEMELTING SHRIMP HAS BEEN A DE FACTO RACING CLUBHOUSE FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY.

THIS PAST JANUARY, a group of Indy 500 winners—who are also current IndyCar drivers—gathered for a dinner at the famed St. Elmo Steak House in downtown Indianapolis. Defending champ Josef Newgarden was there, as were Alexander Rossi, Scott Dixon, and Marcus Ericsson. IndyCar president Jay Frye was present along with Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Doug Boles. The group met to talk through exciting new developments regarding the 2024 season, and what better place to do it? St. Elmo has a specialty that makes it unlike any other hot spot on earth.
The place serves a world-famous shrimp cocktail. But that’s not what this is about. St. Elmo’s real specialty is the fact that for more than 100 years, it has been the de facto clubhouse for Indy drivers, executives from the IndyCar series and its teams, and the powerhouses of the Brickyard organization itself—anybody who’s anybody on the American racing scene.

“If walls could speak . . .” adds Tim Cindric, president of Team Penske and father of current NASCAR driver Austin Cindric. He’s not kidding: The walls are crowded with portraits of racing heroes who’ve been regulars, from A.J. and Mario to old-timers from back before color photography.
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