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Before a driver climbs
into the car, straps in and drives off, you have an engineer. Tim Wardrop is going
to make sure the car has the best suspension
settings possible, make sure that the car
has enough air pushing the car to the ground. Those wings both
in front and back. They're like
inverted airplane wings. And when that wind hits it, it sucks the car to the ground. Those are all decisions made
by the race engineer. He was getting my thoughts on how I like a car. And then at the same time, he was telling me
what I would feel. This is what you wanna
look for in the car
into the car, straps in and drives off, you have an engineer. Tim Wardrop is going
to make sure the car has the best suspension
settings possible, make sure that the car
has enough air pushing the car to the ground. Those wings both
in front and back. They're like
inverted airplane wings. And when that wind hits it, it sucks the car to the ground. Those are all decisions made
by the race engineer. He was getting my thoughts on how I like a car. And then at the same time, he was telling me
what I would feel. This is what you wanna
look for in the car
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Before a driver climbs
into the car,
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straps in and drives off,
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you have an engineer.
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Tim Wardrop is going
to make sure the car
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has the best suspension
settings possible,
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make sure that the car
has enough air
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pushing the car to the ground.
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Those wings both
in front and back.
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They're like
inverted airplane wings.
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And when that wind hits it,
00:00:22.229 --> 00:00:24.273
it sucks the car to the ground.
00:00:24.481 --> 00:00:28.152
Those are all decisions made
by the race engineer.
00:00:28.235 --> 00:00:30.738
He was getting my thoughts
00:00:30.821 --> 00:00:33.365
on how I like a car.
00:00:35.534 --> 00:00:36.952
And then at the same time,
00:00:37.001 --> 00:00:39.872
he was telling me
what I would feel.
00:00:39.955 --> 00:00:43.334
This is what you wanna
look for in the car.
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Movie Summary
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.
