The fund left many of its economic projections unchanged from its January forecast, though it cut its forecasts for near-term growth in sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and the lower-i e countries in Europe. It also tamped down its projections for growth in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Tommy Johnson Jr. has peted as a nitro racer for over two decades. He has driven for the two of the biggest names in the sport, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Don Schumacher, and has won a bined nine national events while racing Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars.Johnson has even won nitro races on four different continents. When analyzing his career, there is very little he hasn't done. But he has never peted in a four-wide drag race."Hard to believe, huh?" Johnson said.
Johnson has attended the NHRA's 4-Wide Nationals, which this weekend e to zMax Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway.Wholesale Chevron Drag Bits from China He's worked as a track analyst and even a weekend as a pit reporter, but never has had a chance to pete."I may not have ever raced it physically, but I've raced it the few years standing on the starting line mentally every year," said Johnson. "…I'm well aware of how it all works, so it shouldn't be that big of an issue."The NHRA 4-Wide Nationals is the only stop on the series where the contestants pete four at a time.Johnson said he's been a student of the greatest spectacle in drag racing."I think it's a tremendous display of gross horsepower," Johnson said. "We're kind of an over the top kind of sport anyway.Wholesale Threaded Button Bit from China The fuel cars and the horsepower we make and the horsepower it creates, but you take that and double it, and there's nothing like two fuel cars going down the track. Well, how can you describe four, then?"
Johnson had a front row seat to the strategies of the drivers as an analyst with ESPN last year."It was a little different last year to do the coverage of it," Johnson said. "It does create some different circumstances and things that we're not used to. To be able to cover it and see the strategies and see how it all played out when I was doing the broadcast. I don't know if I gained anything, any valuable information through that, but it was a different way of looking at the four-wide drag racing for sure."