- Yeah, there's maybe like, 20 women racing motorcycles
out of about 300 guys, or more, in the state of California.
I'm one of them.
And I'm proud to say I'm becoming one of the faster ones.
My name's Krystyna Kubran, and I'm a racer with WERA West,
and we're here at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.
Yeah, the pigtails are pretty easy
to spot on the racetrack.
One guy told me, he said that he was just getting
angrier and angrier as he was trying to catch me,
and he said your pigtails were flopping in the wind,
back there like ha-ha, ha-ha (laughs).
Apparently, it gets some of the guys pretty riled up.
This is Duke, he's my co-pilot,
he's my garage buddy.
He's my pit crew, he's my guard dog.
Motorcycle racing is a very expensive hobby,
(laughs) that I enjoy.
In my full-time job, I'm a mechanical engineer
and I make turbochargers.
It's track day, which is, for us racers,
it's practice, and they run three groups,
they have beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
It's way funner than the canyons,
and a lot safer cause there's an ambulance
to come scrape you up when you fall down.
(laughs) And this is my bike, it's a Kawasaki ZX10,
it's a 1000CC motorcycle, and I'm gonna be competing
in Open/A Superbike and Open/A Superstock
with WERA West on Sunday.
My whole life, I have gravitated
towards traditional male-dominated fields,
and I'm not entirely sure why,
that's kinda just the way my brain operates.
Never quite felt like I fit in with the crowd,
and here I feel like I really fit in.
One of the best parts about being a female racer,
I have no problems bedazzling my tire warmers,
bedazzling my tool box,
I love putting on that glitter eyeliner
that matches my motorcycle.
This is the helmet,
your eyes are the only thing you get to see.
The wind, oh my God, the wind out there.
I'm very grateful that I'm only 5'3,
so I can lay on the motorcycle
and pretty much become one with it.
This track, you hit about 170 on the front straightaway.
But the first time I did 100 miles an hour
on the motorcycle was very exciting,
you know, cause that's just the sensation of speed
and there's nothing around you,
and so it's just a really intense sensation of speed.
Can't get a date to save my life,
they always give me the excuse, "you're too intimidating."
I could go on and on, but the reality is,
is that I don't want to have a penis,
I like being a girl, I want the boy to be the boy,
but just cause I do stuff
doesn't mean you're any less of a man.
You just stick around to see what's underneath,
and I'm still a girl.
I like being a girl, I like to wear heels,
I like to wear dresses, and I like to be taken care of.
And I'd love it for a dude to just give me a hug
when I come off the racetrack,
and say, "Baby, you did a good job."
(laughs) That's all.
Alright, oil change done.
I think it's a struggle a lot of women have,
that are very successful in a lot of areas
that are traditionally male-dominated.
A line from Clueless comes to mind,
where she wanted to learn
how to do the cool things he did on a skateboard,
and he said, "Well, if you did them,
"then what would I do to impress you?"
The 1 o'clock session went pretty well,
although the wind was quite horrific.
They post the lap times here and I'm fourth fastest.
I'm pretty stoked with that.
- Today I'm gonna change tires,
make sure she's got gas in the tire warmers,
and most importantly keep her head in the game.
- I got JJ Matter here helping me,
and cousin Matty Buanno,
I'm thrilled that they're out here helping me,
working for beer, bacon, (laughs)
and the girls that come hang out in my pit. (laughs)
- [Matty] Race day for an amateur,
you usually wake up at the racetrack.
I will usually make a breakfast for her
because you really have to get a decent breakfast in.
You get some fresh tire on,
and you're ready for a race.
- [Voiceover] Number 352, Krystyna Kubran,
outside front row.
- She's in sixth place, with seventh place hot on her tail.
Oh, somebody's out.
She's in fifth place, with sixth hot on her tail (laughs).
- [Krystyna] That was awesome!
- [Man] Alright Krystyna, woo!
- It was a really good race, I'm proud of how I rode,
I had a really good start.
My arms are sore and tired, from just push pulling,
I mean, look at my hands.
I have blisters on my hands.
- [Man] Alright Krystyna, woo! Kick ass!
- Two fifth places, in the big boy class,
and the white came home in one piece,
nobody's injured, that's a good day in my book.
- I am in a position with my racing,
that I never even dreamed I would get to.
If I end up inspiring other girls,
to go and pursue their dreams,
whether it's to ride a motorcycle,
or to, you know, go after that college degree,
or pursue whatever it is that they're excited about,
then I'm happy about that.