petersburg, florida, where abby hornacek is live along with today's starting lineup drierveg alexander rossirter: that's right, rachel. good morning to you. yeah, alex here is joining us. even toe he has a big race are coming up later today, so thank you a for joining us this morning. >> no problem at all. happy to be here. >> reporter: all right. you've won the indycar series eight a times, one of them was the indy 500 when it was a soldout crowd. you were a rookie, and it was the 100th anniversary. what was that like? >> when you put it like that, i'm hoping i didn't peak too early. no, it was an amazing experience, it was life-changing. it's the biggest single-day sporting vent in the world. it's a huge thing, obviously, for our sport but also american motorsports in general, 330,000 people in one place. t it's a must-see vent. just to compete is an amazing thing. >> reporter: as you can hear, people watching at home, it's very loud in here. where are we? >> we're in st. pete, a little bit south of tampa, in florida, it's race a one of the season. we race on city streets down here, and th