abc 2 news' linda stow is live downtown with a preview for us.things get under way in about two hours. >>reporter: yeah. practice actually starts at 8:00 this morning, one of those that you'll be able to find on the track, michael johnson, thanks so much for joining us. you were telling me you got start inside this when you were 3 years old, are you kidding me? >> yeah. it was all for my dad. he got me started early and i never stopped. >>reporter: he was in race sng >> yeah. he raced professionally with flat track and road racing and that's how i got started. >>reporter: you've been racing ever since. can you tell us about 2005, the accident you were in? >> i was racing flat track in canada, it was just a fun day, and i ended up going through a wood fence, and i broke my back. and then i had the recovery and i started racing cars in 2009, racing go carts and everything. this is my first year running this pro series. >>reporter: that was one of your goals, you didn't want that accident -- you being paralyzed to hold you back, right? i mean, you a

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linda stow is downtown this morning. and, linda, the schedule starts today as far as racing is concerned. >>reporter: yeah. practice starts at 8:00 this morning, so you're going to see a lot of things going on on this track. they are putting the finishes touches right now. and to tell us more about it this morning jade gerst with grand prix. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> this is exciting. a lot of changes this year. can you tell us about that? >> yeah. we had a lot of changes, a couple of them on the track designed to make the racing faster and better. that's going to be great for the spectators here at the track as well as people around the world that are going to watch this on television, but we've made a lot of other changes for the spectators. we've increased the pedestrian access, we've installed a series of ada-compliant gates. so every hour or so people will be able to cross the street or cross the track, get from one area to the other. we have some new areas, we have the family fun zone which is a goofy

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and abc 2 news' linda stow is live from the track this morning. and, linda, we're about an hour away from those engines starting up. >>reporter: yeah. they're going to be practicing, so you'll get to see that. and to tell us more about what's going on all this weekend, tim curley, general manager of the grand prix. you've been busy telling me you only got about two hours of sleep yesterday. it's exciting, it's finally happening. >> it is. we're very excited. we're going to put on a great show for the fans. we have all the roads still open. a few delays around here which we're working with the city and department of transportation, but track is 99.9% of the way there. we have another hour to go before we start practice. we're very excited. about 100 people on track putting things together, another 1,000 people around the circuit putting things in place for the fans. so we're going to have great fun. >>reporter: so people coming out today, what can they expect? >> well, today is two-fold, or two things. basically there's the practice for all of the

abc 2 news' linda stow is live downtown with a preview. linda, any point -- at any point are you going to hop behind the wheel of the abc 2 cruiser and take it for a couple laps? >>reporter: no. we gotta keep that clear for the real racers out here. practice actually starts this morning at 8:00 and one of the drivers nice enough to get up extra early, peter dempsey, thanks for joining us. you were here last year and you raced and you were telling me you loved the city, you loved the track. >> for sure. this is a first event for the city of baltimore last year and they put on a great show. love to be back here. i love this city, i love the track, a good race last year, i qualified second. practice today at 12:00. can't wait to get on track. everything is under control for everyone to control for today, looking forward to it. >>reporter: you've been doing this a long time, you have some impressive wins under your belt. how did you get start snd >> it was a pretty long road. i'm from a small town in ireland and my dad owns the race team, it's

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