What's up with Shrek?

2025 St. Petersburg GP IndyNXT autograph session

As the 2024 season concluded, Ella purchased small, plastic, glow-in-the-dark mushrooms for the drivers to pose with and distribute. For Christmas, she received a Shrek action figure of Gingi and then decided to collect the whole cast. It wasn't her idea for the drivers since she had the mushrooms, but she wanted to do something different.

At the 2025 St. Petersburg GP, she went around the track asking people to pose with Shrek. All the drivers were more than confused, but at the end of the day, they all loved it. Shrek got a lot of attention on social media with teams posting him.