Larry McReynolds: The Big Picture: My Life From Pit Road to the Broadcast Booth
During the early 1990s, any race fan who listened to the radio channel of the No. 28 Texaco Havoline Ford knew about "the Big Picture." It was crew chief Larry McReynold's favorite motto. Time and time and time again, he'd tell his driver, "Look at the Big Picture."Larry's own remarkable career, first as a crew chief and now as a network television broadcaster, has itself become a Big Picture - a unique saga of triumphs and trophies mixed with the sternest of trials and tribulations.Here, then, is Larry's story, told with the same perceptiveness and attention to detail that Larry shows in the FOX broadcast booth as a NASCAR color announcer.You'll fly with Larry on the final, poignant airplane trip from New Hampshire with the late Davey Allison after two years of amazing ups and downs. You'll take the frantic ride in the NASCAR pace car out to turn two at Michigan after the devastating crash than nearly killed Ernie Irvan. You'll join Larry in victory lane with Dale Earnhardt after his most dramatic victory - the 1998 Daytona 500 - and learn the truth about his troubled times with the Intimidator. And you'll read insider stores as only Larry can tell them, including more than one blow-by-blow visit to the dreaded NASCAR "woodshed" for a bawling-out by NASCAR chairman Bill France himself.Reaching back to his earliest days in racing as a volunteer mechanic in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, Larry and co-author Bob Zeller weave a fast-paced, smooth reading narrative that takes readers and race fans on a high speed ride through some of NASCAR's most dramatic and memorable moments.