| Once Around The Track |  | Author: Sharyn Mccrumb
Publisher: Kensington
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Rating:  14 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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"McCrumb draws you close, makes you care." -Los Angeles Times Racing fans have never seen anything like it-and they've seen plenty-the first all-women's team in stock-car racing history. Already a national sensation, the spotlight heats up when financial challenges force Team 86 to hire a male "wheel man." And Badger Jenkins is a man all right-a sweet-faced Georgian who oozes aw-shucks charm off the track and unleashes blistering speed in competition. But the real Badger is a hard man to know. Just ask the women whose job it is to keep both car and driver in one piece. From crew chief and team manager Tuggle to engine specialist Rosalind Manning, publicist Melanie Sark and diehard fan Taran Stiles, this asphalt sisterhood will power through a racing season of dizzying highs and terrifying lows to prove that women can do a man's job. And when the unthinkable happens, each will realize that they've been hurtling at breakneck speed toward a moment that will change them forever. Rave Reviews For Sharyn McCrumb "McCrumb writes with a quiet fire-like every true storyteller, she has the Sight." -The New York Times Book Review "There is no one quite like her among present-day writers. No one better, either." -The San Diego Union-Tribune "McCrumb portrays people so well it makes your heart ache." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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 interesting look at an all female NASCAR team June 10, 2007
Harriet Klausner
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The entire NASCAR Team Vagenya (a female Viagra sponsor) is female with one exception; the driver Badger Jenkins. He was selected for several reasons: the lack of women drivers, his Peach State looks, his unpretentiousness in only wanting to drive and fish, and he is good. Badger just wants to drive race cars and go fishing on his days off.
Team engineer Taran Stiles has always worshiped the mega talented hunk especially in his purple outfit. However, she hid her feelings and kept her distance as much as possible. Now they work for the same team, but worse she knows it is not hero worship as she loves the hunk who hangs around the garage like one of the team.
This interesting look at an all female NASCAR team trying to make it in what is perceived as a male sport is a refreshing tale although none of the characters including the romantic lead come across as very deep as NASCAR is the star. Fans of NASCAR will appreciate the look into the racing world in which the relationship between Badger and Taran serves to enhance a scrutiny of the sport. Readers will enjoy what occurs off the track (including a betrayal by writing a memoir exposé), in the pits (Pit Chief Tuggle leads as Kensington states: "A League of Their Own"), and on the oval (Badger goes for victory).
Harriet Klausner
Once Around the Track Takes the Checkered Flag July 24, 2007
Lizbeth J. Phillips (Abingdon, VA United States)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Sharyn McCrumb's second NASCAR novel, Once Around the Track, is a real winner. It's not just another book about stock car racing where superstars and movie stars dominate the pages. Instead, the reader is treated to a new team that boasts a woman crew chief, an all women pit crew, a pharmaceutical company sponsor marketing Vagenya (Viagra for women), and a couple of guys thrown in for good measure--driver Badger Jenkins and his spotter Tony LaFon. Add a publicist with the opportunity to write an expose on NASCAR and the Dominatrix manager whose ambition threatens Badger Jenkins's racing future, and you have the makings of a best seller.
Where ST. DALE was outside NASCAR's inner circle with its pilgrimage of Dale Earnhardt fans, ONCE AROUND THE TRACK is a novel about the inside of a one-car NASCAR team that has to compete with the multi-million dollar teams, both on and off the track. This is a wonderful read, and I whole heartedly recommend it.
 Sharyn McCrumb, Once Around the Track September 29, 2007
S. M. Lea
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is quite different from McCrumb's "mountain" books and her Elizabeth MacPherson books. It is also quite different from St. Dale. She provides an inside look at the problems and costs of entering a car in NASCAR racing, as well as the interactions among various team members, in the context of a corporation entering a car with a male driver and an all-female pit crew. The book is well written and interesting, but it didn't quite seem to come to life for me. At the same time, I feel some re-readings might make me appreciate it more.
NASCAR FANS GALORE September 12, 2009
Charles Hunnicutt (leicester, nc usa)
REALLY LIKED THE BOOK, MOSTLY BECAUSE I LIKE THE WRITER. THOUGHT SHE CARRIED IT A LITTLE TOO FAR ABOUT HOW FANS ARE GA, GA--OVER THESE GUYS, I LIKE RACING WELL, BUT NOT TO THIS EXTENT. BUT STILL A GOOD STORY AND AS A WRITER, SHARYN CANNOT BE BEATEN. DH
Pleasantly Surprised August 15, 2010
Sheri (Montana)
I'm not a NASCAR fan. I have never seen a race. Since I had enjoyed reading other books by this author, I clicked the button to buy the book.
McCrumb does a very good job in writing this book that even as someone who knew nothing about the sport, I got caught up in the characters & plot and started to care. She created characters that felt real to me, she took me into a world I had never even considered visiting. I thought it was wonderful and couldn't put it down.
And yes, I admit it, I googled NASCAR and looked into the real world of racing just a bit.
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