Drivers of Color: Interview with Motorsport legend Willy T. Ribbs

09/07/2020 42 min

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Episode Synopsis

Grand Prix Rundown welcomes Willy T. Ribbs as part of our Drivers of Color Series 
Ribbs competed in several NASCAR series from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. Ribbs also was the first African-American man to have tested a Formula One car testing for the Brabham F1 team in 1986 at the Autódromo do Estoril, Portugal. Later he was become the first African-American to start the Indianapolis 500.