The Indian covers band is in full swing, belting out a stream of the kind of inoffensive wedding-rock fare you get at social occasions the world over.
It's the post-season party for the MRF Challenge, which earlier that day had its final round on the track just up the bumpy, dusty, insane-traffic road from central Chennai.
A bunch of mainly European and Latin American youngsters are veering around the floor, backslapping and manhugging each other. Among them is 16-year-old Mick Schumacher, being jostled about by his mates and peers, trying not to spill his drink.