15 Minutes with Yulina: Females in Motorsport Series

Forever Motoring

Hello, everyone. This is a short 15 minute episode, one of a series in which we hear from women in motor sports about the business and about being a woman in it from different angles and sides. It's part of a larger blog post that you can find on the website, www.forevermotoring.com.
This conversation is with a motorcycle racer named Yulina, or rosyulina on Instagram.

She started out as a promotion girl, a grid girl, one of those beautiful women holding umbrellas for the male racers. Then she decided she wanted to be on the bike for herself. And she did it. But it's been quite a hard journey--physically, financially, and in terms of negotiating the things women have to negotiate relative to their image and how they fit into a typically male world.

Yulina is constantly trying to figure this out. How much does she promote herself? How much did she show her body? How much did she not?

She talks about it all on her Instagram, and I find that refreshing. I'm going to link to some of those posts. So you can just look for yourself. Because I don't have the answers to any of this. But it's something interesting to think about and something we should think about.

And it's definitely something that's changing now.
The woman she discusses in the clip--the person she watched in the Transformer films when she was a kid and wanted to be like--is Megan Fox.
Here are some examples from her Instagram:
Construction
Better Person Every Day
Meeting Goals
Can I Be a Racer
Coming to Terms with Your Body
Accepting Grid Girl Days
Scars
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