Fast Girl: Don't Brake Until You See the Face of God and Other Good Advice from the Racetrack
Steffensen was living a fairly typical life: a nice house in a New Jersey suburb, a husband, a daughter, a rewarding career. But when her car-enthusiast husband—he teaches driving techniques to Formula One drivers—convinced her to give fast driving a try, the fortysomething Steffensen was surprised to discover just how much she liked it. Now she’s a race-car driver, a self-described speed freak. In this fast-paced book, she talks about reconciling her workaday life with her new passion for speed (she’s an art-history professor with an off-hours schedule that was busy enough before the roar of the engine entered it), about the way her relationship with her family changed, and about the way, entirely by accident, she discovered a vital, essential part of herself that had been hidden away all those years. An engaging, likable book. --David Pitt