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Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story

Awesome race driver, who happened to be African-American

Awesome race driver, who happened to be African-American

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Awesome race driver,
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who happened to be African-American.
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4 seconds
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Timestamp in Movie
01:25:50
Uploaded
Jun 05, 2025
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documentary
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An in-depth profile of the life and career of Willy T. Ribbs - the controversial Black driver who shattered the color barrier of professional auto-racing and became the first Black qualifier in the storied history of the Indy 500.
The generation before me - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:29
The generation before me
Every day that you come, you come straight into the garage. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:05
Every day that you come, you come straight into the garage.
He gave me a lot of confidence. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:18
He gave me a lot of confidence.
Rick Mears is a four-time Indy champion. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:19
Rick Mears is a four-time Indy champion.
I want you to get to the corner and wait till the last second. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:18
I want you to get to the corner and wait till the last secon...
Unfortunately, the reliability of the car - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:14
Unfortunately, the reliability of the car
So we want to get that sorted out. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:13
So we want to get that sorted out.
As you crash or you blow an engine, - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:20
As you crash or you blow an engine,
I think there was a sense of pity, - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:05
I think there was a sense of pity,
I don't know how they kept going. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:10
I don't know how they kept going.
Do you think he'll get in? - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:04
Do you think he'll get in?
And not knowing what to do coming down to the wire. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:05
And not knowing what to do coming down to the wire.
And Buick really tried to help all of its teams - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:34
And Buick really tried to help all of its teams
And there was some, some squeezing, - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:08
And there was some, some squeezing,
Somebody got their balls squeezed real hard - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:08
Somebody got their balls squeezed real hard
And then it's bump day. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:19
And then it's bump day.
So we were really worried at not being fast enough - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:15
So we were really worried at not being fast enough
All right, just smoking. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:04
All right, just smoking.
We're dead meat, we are gonna go home. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:06
We're dead meat, we are gonna go home.
The thing was just laboring the whole time. - Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story 00:05
The thing was just laboring the whole time.